Drowsy Emperor
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I've seen a ton of trash lately but two good films stood out: Hunt for the Wilderpeople - a fine drama-comedy-adventure about an orphaned boy and his unlikely "uncle" as they evade baddies from child-protective services in the New Zealand bush. The formula has been seen before but the script is great. Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers) - a good relationship drama in which couples play a modern version of a truth-or-dare type game that reveals all the many secrets they kept from each other.
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Malmo is the multicultural success of Sweden, where a town that was 100% Swedish went to less than 50% Swedish in the span of a generation, turning into a place where bombs are thrown on the police with depressing regularity: https://www.rt.com/news/310757-sweden-malmo-blasts-crime/ Incidentally, the second largest minority in the city are Serbs but for "some reason" you don't see them wrecking **** and beating up Swedes all that often. @Volourn; You should'nt give a Neonazi tabloid traffic. You should use, for instance, local newspapers instead. Also, alot of Serbians came to Sweden as workforce immigrants, wich helped the refugees that came later(During times, in wich Sweden did'nt use an economic model in wich you have a "natural unemployment" and saw human workforce as shirts in a warehouse. After we "upgraded" to an American model of economics our unemployment rates went from 2 to 8 percent. Bit easier to get people integrated into society when there's work for just about anyone), wich I suppose made it alot easier for them to integrate into Swedish society. I was in school when most of the 90s refugees came, and there was quite a few Serbians in my school - they were regular hoodlums that wanted to fight and vandalize stuff. They eventually relented though.(Granted, that is only personal data from me) Well, they relented and joined the neonazi's, but still. If that is not integrating into Swedish society, I don't know what is! Top kek. But its not unexpected or surprising, they really don't have much common ground with the islamic immigration so those that couldn't integrate normally would gravitate to whatever domestic extreme is available.
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Malmo is the multicultural success of Sweden, where a town that was 100% Swedish went to less than 50% Swedish in the span of a generation, turning into a place where bombs are thrown on the police with depressing regularity: https://www.rt.com/news/310757-sweden-malmo-blasts-crime/ Incidentally, the second largest minority in the city are Serbs but for "some reason" you don't see them wrecking **** and beating up Swedes all that often.
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I actually think he does have that mindset. From a joke candidate, to wiping the floor with every Republican professional politician, then manipulating his pariah status in the media into free publicity and subsequently spinning the entire political discourse to revolve around him and finally winning. All this from a seventy year old man - and the US election trek is physically exhausting and mentally draining even for younger people. He may have stayed in 5 star hotels all the time, but daily speeches, events, debates etc. are hard and take a lot of discipline and willpower. And all of this for what? A challenge? The guy is valued at 4 billion dollars, at his age and status he doesn't need to partake in the political cesspool - he can just hire politicians to do his bidding (as he used to). But he played the whole thing like a boss all the way to the finish line. It just may be that Americans elected the most willful and politically capable president in decades. If he doesn't reign in his attitude and let others run the show now that he's in the White House he could be a force to be reckoned with. We'll see when he starts choosing his team.
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There is still hope for for Hillary Clinton
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I have a feeling the real trauma is going to be when all the tests come back negative, proving the whole thing completely unnecessary.
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Not my finest hour.
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Had a urethral swab done yesterday. jesus****ingchristmakeitstoppleaseaaaarghhhh Don't do it unless you have to.
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Is there no one to tell them that the election is over.
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You may not have noticed, but violence is all coming from one side. Sure is mate, sure is. https://twitter.com/i/moments/796417517157830656?m=1 Ha ha ha ha. http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/11/10/police-muslim-student-fabricated-hijab-grab-trump-supporters/ Hold up. So one reported incident was fabricated, therefore the implication you are making is that ALL of them are, right? I don't even, so I'm just going to quote your own immortal words: There are objectively less incidents committed by Trump's "racists and hicks". That sort of behavior has been demonized so long that right supporters have to behave to a higher standard... and they usually do. I believe that the overall capacity for violence and stomach for it on the right is greater than with the liberals - but that stems from a capacity for organization and dedication to a goal, something the motley crew that makes up the democratic vote lacks. Its just much harder to get that ball rolling and thankfully so.
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Trump understood the modern media. The political discourse has changed, the tools are different (Twitter, short superficial statements carry more weight than before) the language is more direct and downright primitive, like something from older times. It sort of reminds me of the crude WW1 propaganda, where you had German chocolate wrappers saying "Gott strafe England" (May God punish England). Its on the same level of street politics as calling Trump voters "**** grabbers" or them calling the other side "feminazis". I'm guessing his experience with reality TV was invaluable in understanding the political logic the majority now operates with. I feel the average voter across the West (and the east) is now objectively less educated and more of a mob individual than ever. The tools of educating people have become devalued - TV is a cesspool, prominent books and newspapers more sensationalist than ever, the internet is a passable source of information but a terrible substitute for actual learning (and people often confuse the two) and education itself has become commercialized and politicized to the point that blind bias has become an acceptable substitute for genuine scholarship. Not to mention that knowledge is now perceived as useless unless its used in making money, which is great for producing extremely narrow minded individuals (both among the "educated elite" and the "hicks"). The last time I bought "Foreign Affairs", an allegedly respectable publication, I was struck by how shallow the analaysis were and how much articles used bias and politicking as a substitute for actual substance. A whole issue of anti-Russian, anti-Putin drivel. I caught myself thinking - maybe that's how it always was? But then the other day I read an article of the issues surrounding Serbia and Austro-Hungary, written in 1914 by a British historian for Foreign Affairs and I was struck by how well he understood the matter he was writing about, even some excellent comments about the Serbian national character - something that must have been a novelty for a historian writing about a state that had appeared only a few decades prior . At that point I realized the political propaganda of the time might have been crude, but people who had to know things, knew them well. I'm not sure that's the case today.
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Or how the US election metastasized to Renaissance art
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It will die down in a week. It doesn't take much effort to see that the violence and aggression, while present in both camps, is significantly stronger from the liberal corner. Its not a surprise, they media has been convincing them for years that they're the sole purveyors of progress and morality. When you start to believe your own bull**** that way its only a question of time when the torches and pitchforks will come out. The irony is that Trump is probably not even their genuine enemy. Apart from the provocative election campaign strategy I don't see him making it an implicit or explicit goal to oppress women, minorities etc. Like a good businessman he identified the market and sold himself as a product but the fact that they "bought" him doesn't mean they'll actually "get" him. Obama was supposed to be this great herald of peace and equality (pre-emptive Nobel strike lol) but he basically continued every warmongering policy of his predecessors and the inequality gap just widened. There's no reason to believe that Trump will be much different.
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A nice summary https://youtu.be/o1Ho8OrBzig "The truth is, there was no one to vote for"
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White guy gets beaten for "voting trump" https://www.rt.com/usa/366346-man-attacked-trump-chicago/ They gang up on a guy, beat him to a pulp, even explain why they're doing it in the process. In the middle of a busy intersection, in broad daylight. Tape it all and put it up on the internet. Are there words to describe the degree of stupidity on display here?
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Guess he saw that episode of the Simpsons too. The rest is (now) history.
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Being a Marxist rag is a terminal condition. Don't flatter them, Marxists, Communists etc. were serious people on a respectable historical mission. The Guardian is thrice removed salon center-left "socialism".
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...and how much our corporate overlords really let him do. I'm not quite up to date but couldn't dropping out of TPP and NAFTA results in partners and/or corporations filing charges through the investment court system (ICS)? Not to mention aggravating the Chinese who sort of own half of the US already. I also think the tax discount for bringing back tax dodger offshore money isn't going to work like he thinks it might. It didn't in other nations (e.g. Germany). I wouldn't take anything he says as a serious commitment. Its just a strategy of saying NO to everything to set himself apart from the other candidates, like the flip side of Obama's "HOPE" - a promise of change without a solid policy backing. Trump is basically repackaging and selling the idea of the "new deal" and prosperity of the 50's to the American whites. But his actual economic policy seems counterproductive to the goal - if he slashes taxes where will the federal/state governments find the funding to raise the alleged massive infrastructural projects he promised? If he cuts regulation to attract business, how will that bring business that left for China because of low production costs, not because of prohibitive regulation. If he taxes Chinese goods while salaries remain the same Americans will be able to buy less for their money, lowering living standards. Its difficult to see how relocating to US based manufacturing will be able to compete on the global market, and the cheap goods that China overwhelmingly makes need massive economies of scale and still make tiny margins - that are barely sustainable for the Chinese themselves, let alone when you need to pay American workers. By the way, the Chinese cheered for Trump all the way through. They see him as a man who can be negotiated with and who understands money, whereas Clinton was basically a guarantee of the current trend of near military conflict in the South China Sea. They know the whole taxation thing is a wash. Trump basically took the laundry list of things that make mostly white people (but not just whites) in the US angry and ran with it. But a lot of those things are a natural development of policy or economy that can't be reversed to a profitable outcome.
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We'll see how much of that he'll really do
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https://www.theguardian.com/international What's wrong with the Guardian, is there no one to tell them the election is over and that they can stop doomsaying.
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I wonder if Bernie secretly voted for Trump after being shafted so bad during the campaign.
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Yupp, so strong he barely got any votes wait that's totally not what happened. Well, the pressure is only good for shaming in social groups and influencing weak willed people. But in the voting booth you're free to give them all the middle finger. Which is what happened. Its not illogical that there really was pressure and that it also backfired. Those can go hand in hand.
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Its not really wrong. There was strong social pressure to vote against Trump. I had Greeks, Swedes, Germans, Indonesians and all other sorts of people to whom the results of the elections are completely unimportant trying to convince me that Trump was the son of Satan and Hillary was the least bad choice. In the Netherlands, of all places. In other words you had people parroting the main media line the world over even when they have no stake in it at all. That's how strong the whole media coverage was. Therefore its surprising that in the US, where everything is more extreme to begin with (and uhm, a relevant issue to begin with), a good portion of the voters kept their mouths shut for the polls, or even flat out lied and then went out and voted Trump.
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That's what happens when you let google translate your speech into a language you barely speak.
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Wyoming, which has population bit less than 600k has three electoral votes, so about 1 vote per 200k people California, which has population of about 39 145 000 has 55 electoral votes, which is about 1 vote per 700k people. But that's just because they have to have at least one representative and two senators. Yes it does make the system more egalitarian (from the point of view of the state as an entity, less so if you're looking at the value of a persons vote), but it doesn't really affect the overall power ratio all that much.
