Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to Zynga s fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 financial results conference call. [Operator instructions] Please be advised that today s conference is being recorded. [Operator instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Rebecca Lau, vice president, investor relations and corporate finance. Please go ahead, ma am.
Rebecca Lau
Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Finance
Thank you, Josh, and welcome, everyone, to Zynga s fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 earnings call. On the call with me today are Frank Gibeau, our chief executive officer; and Ger Griffin, our chief financial officer. Shortly, we will open up the call for live questions. Before we cover the safe harbor, please note that in effort to keep our team members healthy, each member on today s call is dialed in remotely.
THE F-WORD-“Leftists” I know have had their undies tied up in a nasty knot bunch over other leftists’ use of the F-word – fascism – to describe Trump and his backers.
Fascism, seriously? Yes, absolutely, provided we have a reasonable definition. In his incisive 2009 book The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, David Neiwert rightly observed that “Fascism is not a single, readily identifiable principle but rather a political pathology best understood (as in psychology) as a constellation of traits. Taken individually,” Neiwert wrote, “many of these traits seem innocuous enough, even readily familiar, a part of the traditional American hurry-burly. A few of them . . .are present throughout the political spectrum. Only when taken together does the constellation become clear, and then it is fated to take on a life of its own.”
After weeks (years, really) of debate on the subject I realized I’d never really committed to writing my argument about why I think it’s appropriate to talk about fascism in regards to Trump and…
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Romania
Friday 15 January 2021, by Raul Carstocea
In the current political climate, witnessing an ascendance of far-right parties across Europe, and a more general shift to the right in mainstream politics globally, Romania was often pointed out as an exception in this respect, certainly when it came to the area of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe. Since 2008, when the Greater Romania Party (Partidul România Mare, PRM) failed to meet the 5% electoral threshold for entering Parliament, there had been no far- or radical-right parties in the Romanian Parliament. As of the 6th of December, the date of the latest legislative elections, the ‘Romanian exception’ is no more.