civic duty, lesser of two evils, can't complain if you didn't vote
'Civic duty' is retarded. It's as if you're saying that it's your job to prop up the regime.
Lesser of the two evils: depends on how much less evil one side is. Many here will disagree with me, but I don't think McCain is less evil than Obama.
Can't complain? Actually, the only way you can complain when you DO NOT VOTE (which I don't recommend in this case, not that anyone is asking me). If you do vote, you are part of the system, so you can be held accountable for the abysmal outcomes of the system. A reasonable defense is that you tried to forestall worse, but voting for the lesser of the two evils every time is ensuring that the lesser evil will get more evil every time. In other words, it's good that Romney lost, because there would have been no Trump.
Largely true. Problem is, you will need a majority of those cows [voters] on your side to effect any meaningful political change. Voting for a cause orients them in a general direction.
Eh... not really. A lot of stuff gets done without 'majorities' of voters.
While this is true on paper, if the only paper you read is campaign press releases, anyone paying the slightest attention to the Overton window since Trump became a national figure should be able to perceive that the right is actually moving farther right. The true liberal "softening" of the GOP was in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Reagan passed an amnesty and appointed two garbage candidates to the SCOTUS. And after that? George H.W. Bush signed a hate crime bill & appointed David Souter. The GOP has been garbage in living memory.
The only way to end the current wars is to make peace with the respective stronger party in each: Russia and Israel. Any suggestion that Trump has gone neocon is risible.
Honestly, I got chills when Trump praised MIKE POMPEO in his talk with Joe Rogan. That said, he's clearly the least warmongering.
Vote. Use the tool at hand to take action.
This I agree with. In any situation you are, you have a number of tools at your disposal for resistance. Sometimes, this means participating in government-orchestrated polls, at other times it means boycotting them.
The metric systems replaced... approximately the same number of measures in France as it has varieties of cheese. So that was actually an improvement. Whereas there was only 1 Gregorian calendar.
The Khmer Rouge started at Year 0.
Eh... if it's an archive, you will only see the first post even if you have an account.
Aren't you engaging in the Murray Gellman Amnesia effect here? Why would you trust someone who is a total lunatic to tell you the truth about some other subject?
Read a work of serious history if you want to know about the French Revolution. Even the historians who regard the French Revolution as a positive, don't sugarcoat its wrongs.
Everyone has noticed that. December was the 10th month, hence the 'decem'. January and February were the 11th and 12th months, followed by the new year which was in March until the Gregorian reform.
It is not random that there are 12 months. It's 12 because in an average year, there are 12 lunar cycles, which unfortunately do not add up to 365.25 days.
I like that you're willing to take a controversial stand.
But you are wrong. The changes that you mention in history were organic. They replaced a system that was less good by one that was better. Nobody mourns the loss of the interkalaris.
This one was imposed top-down not for pragmatic reasons, but based on ideology. Which is why it sucks so much. Caesar didn't hire an ideologue. Neither did Pope Benedict. In Persia, it was Khayyam. It was the foremost men of the age who designed calendars. People stuck to them because they were good, unlike the work of the Jacobins.
When regimes cheat a lot, they lose face because it is obvious they did not hold a fair election. When they cheat too little, they risk actually losing.
Who will win (really+declared)? Donald Trump
How big will the victory be? I think Trump will win the popular vote.
How confident are you of this outcome? Not that much (see motivation). I'd give it a 50/50 chance.
When will we know? I expect that like in 2016, we'll know when I wake up here in Europe.
Motivation: I'm counting on Trump outperforming the polls as he has always done, and for the assassination attempt and 'garbagegate' to drive GOP turnout, so I do hope they have not improved their methods, and that claims of worse pro-GOP pollsters skewing the skew are incorrect.
The larger point is correct, but he's getting a few things wrong here.
- the revolutionaries weren't 'enlightened' per se, they were followers of Rousseau. The mainstream enlightenment, even in France, was not associated with him. And in fact, they beheaded some members of that mainstream enlightenment. Though obviously they created the path for this disaster.
- they did not change it in the name of science. In fact, the word was not used back then. Back then, such lunacy happened in the name of reason. There is a difference. Robert Conquest, the great historian, points out that utopias in the 16th and 17th were based on theology, in the 18th and 19th based on 'reason' and in the 20th based on 'science' (Marxism was advertised as 'scientific' socialism).
Most Americans underestimate the disaster that was the French Revolution. The Bolshevik revolution was a follow-up on the French Revolution. In fact, the Bolsheviks modeled themselves after the 'Jacobins', the craziest of the revolutionaries, while denouncing their opponents as 'Girondins'.
Europeans are powerless. Nothing is ever going to change for the better, because the elites have a stranglehold on power and even though Europe is much less militarized than the US, there is no way for the people to effect a revolution.
Depends on what you define as 'the American right'. Mitt Romney is very much like the average 'center-right' (i.e. far-left) European politician on everything except econoics.
The immigrants don't deserve such good-looking stewards and captains (and probably would sexually assault them).
He'd probably knock himself out by punching someone.
Wait till you hear about what the media and Labour say about the Tories in the UK.
They hate them as if they weren't identical to Labour.
It's rigged.
"They'll cheat anyway" => forcing them to cheat is a victory in itself.
Authoritarian regimes try very hard to disqualify meaningful alternatives and bring out turnout so that they don't have to cheat, because winning even semi-fairly bestows legitimacy on them.
I'm not too judgmental even on that, because like Coke needs Original, Light and Zero, we also need different packaging to appeal to different people. You may view Matt Walsh as 'milquetoast', but to most people, and to everyone we want to reach, he is a right-wing radical. In fact, to me, as a European, nearly every American is a right-wing radical, because I quite like things like mandatory vacation days, employment protection, sick leave, etc. Walsh's social positions are just common sense though.
My only problem is that she sperged out over it, because she believed her way is the only way. Whereas I believe that we should have her way and Matt Walsh's, and many others. In fact, "I love and support trans people, but" should be a last resort.
. His foreign policy was the highlight
His Supreme Court was the highlight, but point taken. Still, foreign policy wasn't great. Sending weapons to Ukraine was pretty disastrous.
He'll work on half the dems wish list, and they'll still complain.
That's Mike Johnson... who was pushing through Biden's wishlist while Biden was attacking him.
"Trump isn't perfect." Many Germans said the same of Hitler in 1933, and given that Trump frequently quotes Hitler and threatens political violence, the analogy is 100% apt.
Alright, fine, Trump is perfect.
I love/hate that "liberals" are now defending neocons. Regularly. It's not even rare. They love Dick Cheney, and their only complaint about George W. Bush is that he isn't actively campaigning for Comrade Kamala. And their complaint about Nikki Haley isn't the warmongering evil, it's that she's trying to get back in with Fuhrer Trump.
Their only objection was that the neocons weren't supporting them.
Never knew Birdbrain was a glowie who doesn't like that Trump told people to peacefully and patriotically protest.
Birdbrain endorsed Trump a while back, after saying that she wouldn't. But this seems intended to gain influenced with Trump by appearing to contributing to his possible victory.
Trump proceeded to ramble about his appearance
Urinalists started this 'rambling' nonsense exactly at the same time when the Harris campaign made this its argument.
There is no one on earth who hates them enough.
The original analysis compared positioning of moles on her arms and face to the porn star's along with a comparison of other facial features like the indentation under her chin and the structure of her nose and cheek bones.
I did not see that. I also think it's a little bit in bad taste, not necessarily on your part - but allow people to redeem themselves. There were Christian organizations in the Middle Ages dedicated to saving women from prostitution.
But putting that aside, what I find objectionable is that both she and Yarvin were (allegedly) doing heterodox things in 2008, yet Yarvin remains persona non grata in "respectable" institutions while she isn't. And more people on the "right" will defend a former career in porn than would defend heterodox writings on political philosophy. Richard Hanania constantly has to repudiate his past pseudonymous writings.
You're not wrong. That said, it makes perfect sense from the POV of the hypocritical establishment. A woman doing porn is no threat to them. Even child molestation isn't, which is why they are far more tolerant of that. Yarvin's heterodoxy is a threat, which is why they are not tolerant of that.
A few bad polls for Trump it seems.
EDIT: Trump is back in the lead. https://polymarket.com/event/pennsylvania-presidential-election-winner
I'm not entirely sure there is a pendulum. Don't some argue that it's a ratchet? Then the only way out is a collapse - though I'm not sure boycotting will achieve that.