Which of course makes a nonsense of the whole plan. As in: We promise not to leave the Customs Union if it means instituting a hard border unless you ...
They're looking for a time-limit and/or a legal guarantee they can unilaterally leave it. Both of which would make it pointless. It's like an insuranc...
Of course generalisations are not impossible. But they may have different degrees of validity, which depend on context, including context of purpose. ...
The Northern Ireland assembly is currently suspended, but even if it hadn't been, it's a Westminster issue. Complicating matters, Sinn Fein, who are t...
You link to the right wing propaganda / con artist Jay Sekulow: "Sekulow "approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christ...
May already blinked and gave in on the backstop. There are no new negotiations only a charade by the British PM to please the crazy-wing of her party ...
If I hadn't a bank account with a significant amount of sterling in it, I'd probably be more sanguine about the whole thing. Anyway, I'm also less opt...
The idea that Ireland would agree to something that transgresses the good Friday agreement is fanciful at best. And Ireland has a veto. And the EU rat...
EU: The backstop is non-negotiable. UK: So, how about we renegotiate the backstop? EU: The backstop is non-negotiable. UK: I get it. We'll renogotiate...
In other words, as an individual thinker, you are surplus to requirements, now and forever. Rand has done your thinking for you. All that's left is to...
:100: Which point should be a bedrock principle for any sensible conversation on identity. Yet the romantic myth of the pure asocial individual will t...
I feel like you're arguing more with yourself than me here. I'm not trying to prevent anyone starting this discussion. But every discussion is subject...
Well, the originality required is just that you don't repeat a topic that's already active. And there are none active on this topic. In fact, I have y...
My amateurish attempt at an answer with the usual disclaimers: Those who have little power over others (have difficulties embedding themselves sociall...
Yes, I suspect @"S" cried tears of recognition upon exposure to my prose as the sentiments resonated with that beautiful inner child his ogre of an eg...
Cheers, PP. Appreciate that. :up: I hesitate to mention anyone tbh, but would rather they put their own head above the parapet. Still think it's a goo...
Even if the arguments are not your own, you should still describe at least some of the ideas surrounding the topic in some detail. We normally delete ...
Or one may find their thread closed. EDIT: Don't take this as a discouragement to start other discussions, @"Occidendum", but this argument doesn't ha...
Black like me—John Howard Griffin (Reread) Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative—Walter A. Davis Rabbit, Run—John Updike The...
We can probably leave me out of the title I think. But your comment is much appreciated. :smile: If it were a non-fiction book and intended to be comp...
@"Sir2u" You're conflating pleasure with happiness. E.g. There's lots of pleasure to be got from heroin, but I don't consider heroin addicts to be hap...
@"Purple Pond" Happiness: Something like the proper mixture of sensitivity, creativity and strength achieved through habit and self-reflection; a self...
I moved some of the comments to the Shoutbox to keep us more on topic here. I can't guarantee the discussion will be taken seriously though. It's one ...
It doesn't take a giant intellect to use Google and do basic math, so I don't feel like I'm exactly stretching my peacock feathers here. But OK. Let's...
I don't want to bang on about it as it's not very important, but it's irrelevant how many years the funds are requested for. The budget is not $4 bill...
First line: "The government has spent more than $16 billion over the last decade on outside advertising, marketing and public relations contractors" S...
"According to DOD officials, advertising is one of several tools, which also includes recruiters, that the department uses to influence individuals to...
That's the key distinction that came into my head when reading this. Of course, Richard Nixon might have been named John Nixon if his parents had deci...
What @"fdrake" said. Plus, I didn't look at the post count of either poster that I remember although I suppose a veteran member who has shown that the...
As for the grammar, we don't edit the place like it's an academic journal. So, non-standard use of punctuation and/or sentence structure is no concern...
No, that's not what that says. It says exports were 43% in 2016. We've been through this already: You see total trade involves imports and exports. Do...
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