Austrian Elections & Politics 2.0 (Presidential runoff re-vote: 4 Dec. 2016)

[palandio]

When driving home from work today, I saw a guy in the car in front of me opening the window and as the car drives by along some posters from Norbert Hofer (FPÖ), the guy put his arm outside and made a Nazi salute ! 3 times, at 3 posters that were along the road !

I'm sure you were driving westwards, the sun was already standing quite low and if he wouldn't have protected his eyes with his hand, the sun would have dazzled him while he was looking at the Hofer poster. Or he was ordering five beers.

[palandio]

Official results might be announced within the next few minutes.

VdB favored.

[palandio]

[...] At the Saint-Germain treaty in 1919, Italy received from the Entete as "price" for entering into the war against Austria-Hungary all those parts of the county of Tirol that lay on the southwestern, Italian-bound side of the watershed [...]

The definition of the border through the watershed (with the exceptions pointed out by flocke) still has implications today: The highest point of the Brenner Base Tunnel will be exactly under the border, in order not to alter the border-defining watershed even inside the tunnel.

[palandio]

I fear that now might not be the right moment for posters like this. I mean, provocative messaging has it's right of being when promoting your political causes, but a poster like this directed at the general audience might even help Hofer in the short term. (And before someone asks: I know that the VdB campaign is not responsible for the poster.)