Here in Italy we have “electoral cards” which are issued once every so many years and get reissued when expired or when you move. You need that AND your ID to vote.

Nobody makes a fuss. Just have to be an adult and remember to check if you lost yours sometime before you have to vote. Seems like a good minimum requirement for voting, being able to hold on a piece of paper.

Caesar was more powerful than the whole Senate

I guess you won’t make fun of French people anymore

It’s stupid now but it was already stupid when they did it before, so I don’t why that would change

If you need anything else let me know! Godspeed.

That’s one badass picture

We’re both planning on working remotely and we’d actually prefer to live outside of the cities.

Meaning you already have jobs lined up for this? Remote work in Italy is not uncommon but not super common either, and usually it’s not full remote. Be aware that many areas of Italy have poor connection speeds.

can we ever be fully accepted by any Italian community

I don’t see why not. Maybe focus on being yourselves rather than what you want to be seen as! Of course making new friends as adults always presents challenges, anywhere, but Italians are known to be friendly and outgoing.

And millions who didn’t vote for him but also didn’t protest his actions.

Imagine how Canadians may feel upon seeing their “friends” go along with Trump’s actions.

It’s not really clear what you’re trying to communicate

Italian fascists are left wing compared to the Trump admin

Fascista Superleggera V12

You should drop this argument. Those who haven’t voted are assumed to have the same distribution as those who did.

Most Italians don’t speak correct Italian. As long as you make yourself understood, in day-to-day life it doesn’t matter.

Of course work may require you to perfect your language skills for certain roles.

Hello, Italian here.

So I’ve been a traveller most of my life, for work, and when I was younger, like so many Italians, I dreamed of emigrating to so many different places; life had other plans, and I stayied. Luckily I was able to make a career in a profitable field, and over time I came to appreciate my own country, always looking forward to coming back home.
There’s much to be said for Italy’s cultural heritage and natural beauty, and anywhere you may be in our country, a weekend getaway to visit a beatiful city, historical sites, beach or mountainside is always fairly accessible.

While the rightward move is worrisome, we also have the factor that governments in Italy rarely last to the end of their mandate (we’ve been getting better on that), let alone get elected more than once. Italy was never rid of fascism, in part because that wasn’t in the US’ interest, but also always had one of the strongest communist factions in Europe, so who knows.

What I’ve got to warn you about is economic struggles: Italy has among the lowest wages in developed Europe, for most of us it is impossible to afford an abode alone, most people wait until they’re married because it takes two working people to be able to pay for a single apartment or house (houses for most people are only affordable way outside of cities) and where possible we get mortgages, because rents are impossible; all of our lives are coloured by monetary constraints: we drive small cars because they’re cheaper to own and operate, we mostly hang clothes because driers are another appliance you have to buy and are expensive to run, we rely on a deteriorating public healthcare system because private healthcare is, while usually accessible, an expense we cannot afford.

That said, if you can manage to find good paying jobs, in my opinion this is a good place to live. Of course you need to speak Italian, there’s very low knowledge of English here.
Best work chances are in the North, unfortunately it’s also the least appealing when it comes to natural surroundings, fog, humid heat and bad weather are typical unless you go WAY north to the Alps. If you really feel the need to be in a left-leaning environment, Emilia Romagna is the “red” land of Italy, since the country’s creation has always been governed by left wing parties, and as such has among the best public infrastructure.

Let me know if you need to know anything more.

Not even their own hardware, the steam deck, was in any way closed down. Quite the opposite actually.

Yeah what I meant is: we have a similar system but it’s on a national level (like many other places), so the proportion of votes results in the number of MPs for each list that was voted, with a minimum threshold for winning any seat at all.

Instead in your case, every district elects a single MP, then? Meaning your representation is not proportional to the population but to the majorities of each single district?

Like a single representative? Is it like a small district?

User agent spoofing, tabs back when nobody had them, sidebar…

They could Ribbentrop-Molotov Europe with the US and China I guess

Mark Carney will run for election in the Ottawa riding of Nepean

I don’t understand this sentence

Opera was so good. Disable images, force custom CSS, gestures! Stuff no one else had at the time.