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On the one hand there are those who are to blame for political inaction, intransigence, obfuscation, misdirection, absence of policy and forwarding li...

that's 2017...

Waiting for the Netherlands to down isn't being a canary but a miner, that canary already died. Sea level rises are not projected to drown the Netherl...

Which metric are you using to say the economy has boomed? Second, inequality has risen, so full time jobs but lower living standards especially for ma...

What didn't happen? The pick up in interest in heterogenuous economics and Marx and works from the likes of Pickety since 2008 clearly indicate a shif...

I'd say real change would be very much possible in the US if there would be a meaningful difference between Democrats and Republicans. The system does...

No, I'm saying that in a winner takes all system like the US and UK there is no protection for the losing side at all. The UK people were hopelessly s...

Ah, you mean how that significant remain minority doesn't get to remain?

@"Maw" and I had talked about this in this thread and this is my gut feeling as well. Maw is convinced the support for impeachment with voters is such...

So not knowing that you can then perhaps start to see why your "question" is the wrong one.

Or alternatively you could have paid attention to the SNP, which you didn't, which is why you now think I have magical powers.

That's a pretty clueless comment if you knew what platform SNP was running on.

I'm a cultured Marxist. Not a typo.

That's one way to define it. I look at it differently but we might be meaning the same thing. I think often it's a matter of different values leading ...

They're not even less intelligent. I can disagree on a multitude of policies with @"Hanover" and he's not much less intelligent than I am. :yum:

I don't think voters act irrational actually. We don't see it because we're to removed from them.

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And so it starts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXJODG4e68 Wales is less clear. Labour majority and significant amount of greens but also Conservat...

I already did. Instead of attempting to understand me you prefer to cherrypick sentences to fit your narrative to box in people who disagree with what...

That is not this:

I gave a considered response. Your attempts to reduce it to a one liner either means you're being obtuse or don't understand the difference between yo...

I don't trust people to be decent if things get too abstract. And centralised politics is very abstract. It's more an issue of the system not fitting ...

As much as we'd like, I think it's clear now that character is not a prequisite to win and lies no longer disqualify you. That's how cynical the view ...

This is a real problem and a consequence of the 24/7 media coverage of every event. Typically, nowadays it's news when a politicians opens his mouth. ...

Which is a non sequitur as I explained. It doesn't follow that because the primary hasn't occured that therefore asking Ukraine to investigate Biden h...

You concluded that Trump couldn't ask for the investigation for the 2020 election because the primary hadn't occured yet. I'm not pretending anything,...

I'm not disputing the fact, I'm disputing the conclusion you seem to draw from it which simply doesn't follow. If it's possible Biden could win the pr...

Non sequitur, as if you've never hedged a bet.

That's the lesson. Facts don't matter, power does.

Nobody cares if it means he wins. It's only pansy leftists that backtrack on a joke containing an important truth (while Trump can name his son Barron...

Except when they don't. operation condor It's a case-by-case thing. In this case I think the US administration and legislation have the moral high gro...

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So at least Trump just signed two laws that are more or less supportive of the demonstrators in Hong Kong. EU, I'm looking at you...

It does exactly the opposite for anyone with a rudimentary grasp of the English language. The DNC server story is bullshit as Trump has been briefed r...

Which was illegal and underscores what he said in the call with Zelensky. So we know what he meant with : He asks him to look into an alt-right conspi...

And again, you ignore Trump's own admission of quid pro quo that I quoted two posts before this.

You seem to live under the false assumptions I'm inundated in American news but I'm Dutch. And you assume that all these career officers are anti trum...

Bloomberg = more of the same. A corporatist shill.

Does it really matter though in light of China's clear disdain for democracy? I'd be surprised to see a change in policy because of the outcome of the...

lol. They should make one for the alt-right too. Everyone I don't agree with is a neo-Marxist social justice warrior.

First of all, multiple people reached the same conclusion independent of each other. That's corroborating evidence. You can call it presumptions, I ca...

And yet several witnesses, who were heard behind closed doors so they could not influence each other, each testified as to what they believed his inte...

I spoke to someone who was born in Hong Kong but lived in the Netherlands since she was 9. She thinks where Hong Kong was still important to China in ...

Intent almost never can be proved by people saying it out loud, it is inferred from actual behaviour. This is quite common. If you shoot someone but n...

Unless it reflects a change of opinion related to age. One way to tell is whether there are older graphs like this and if younger support for conserva...

But it's neither here nor there. We're more than capable enough on these boards to put out correct information and argue against alternative narrative...

And what? Those methods, even if true, aren't available to you? And he has my favour up to the point I'm prepared to discuss things with him. I'm just...

If he lies. Show the lies instead of stating he lies and calling him a propagandist. It shouldn't be too hard to argue against someone who you claim i...

OK. So I'm going to outline what I think he means with these types of justice and you'll see that there's a philosophically viable idea of social just...

Totally irrelevant as it has no bearing whatsoever on the current case for Donald Trump. Even if the impeachment were entirely partisan motivated if i...