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- Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
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Re: Elections in various countries
Let's take a look at those claims. Protesters demand: less taxes for low incomes, ecological transition that doesn't punish the working class, raising the minimum wage, better pensions, indexing wages on inflation, rent control, all to be financed by taxes on the rich and corporate profits. Interes...
- Mon Nov 26, 2018 10:02 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
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Re: British Politics Guide
As far as I can tell, US Congressional Committees have the authority to legally subpoena stuff under threat of jail in case of non-compliance, too.
- Thu Nov 22, 2018 2:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1195
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Re: Elections in various countries
Good question.MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:07 pmCould he not just give to charity that way a corrupt person wouldn't benefit financially?mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:42 am How unsurprising: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46254625
- Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:09 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
I started reading Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal by Eric Rauchway, about the presidential transition of 1932/33, but now I've got a cold, so I try to take a break from everything that requires me to focus too much and that I don't absolutely need to do for now.
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
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Re: British Politics Guide
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:11 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
- Views: 1041774
Re: British Politics Guide
What's the chance that someone introduces a motion of no confidence at some time in the near future? I mean in the Commons, not in the Parliamentary Conservative Party.
- Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:57 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
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Re: British Politics Guide
Who is Steve Barclay, and what, if anything, qualifies him to be Brexit Minister?
- Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:35 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
- Views: 1041774
Re: British Politics Guide
??? indeed.
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 8:02 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
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- Views: 550648
Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
My Mom for some reason has a habit of pronouncing the "M" in "MB" (as in, short for "megabyte") the French way. How is that different from the way you'd expect her to pronounce it? I thought the name of M was pronounced /ɛm/ in all of French, English and German (I'm no...
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 6:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
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Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
My Mom for some reason has a habit of pronouncing the "M" in "MB" (as in, short for "megabyte") the French way.
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 3:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1195
- Views: 623547
Re: Elections in various countries
Ah, thank you, that's interesting to know!
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 4:01 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1195
- Views: 623547
Re: Elections in various countries
Not-really-charted waters. Traditionally, when the Chancellor has been from the CDU, that person was also CDU chairperson - or at least as far as I know; I might be wrong. I don't know if there's any experience with someone from the CDU staying Chancellor for years without being CDU chairperson.
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:09 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
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Re: Pronunciations you had to unlearn
I learned embarassingly late that final -e is supposed to be pronounced in words like adobe, catastrophe, hyperbole... This just reminded me of the Dutch pronunciaton of "Nike" /naik/ (which is a wrong English spelling pronunciation, in Dutch it would be /ˈnikə/). JAL A long time ago, whe...
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 8:04 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Dream sharing thread
- Replies: 218
- Views: 295364
Re: Dream sharing thread
I can't really say much because I suck at remembering my dreams, but last night I dreamed that I got fairly drunk, which is interesting because I usually never drink in my dreams. I think it involved me ordering a Four Horsemen. Also, for some reason I had a cute small dog I've never seen before wit...
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:58 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
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- Views: 623547
Re: Elections in various countries
In other news, Angela Merkel has announced that she wants to give up being chairperson of her party in December, and then stay Chancellor until 2021. We'll see if that works out.
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
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I've seen that tweet, too, but I'm a bit sceptical about it - would be more reliable if it was corroborated by some other source.dhok wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:49 am I wouldn't be so sure the military wouldn't want to take over given they're already going after academics.
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:42 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
- Views: 1041774
Re: British Politics Guide
Of course, in a loose sense 'libertarian' can be used for anyone non-authoritarian, anyone right-wing, both, or neither. In this sense, Bastiat was certainly a 'libertarian'. I don't know enough to know whether he was genuinely libertarian or merely neoliberal - although his rhetoric appears libert...
- Sun Oct 28, 2018 4:04 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1195
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Re: Elections in various countries
I just realized that, if the USA should somehow get a Democratic president again at some time in the near future, we might partially get an inverse version of the scenario from The Fire Shall Try.
- Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
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Re: British Politics Guide
Haven't you had them for a while? Like, say, Frédéric Bastiat? I'm not sure Bastiat counts as a libertarian. He was way too sensible for that :) Wasn't he in favour of letting every property owner decide for himself which government should govern his property, or something like that? Sounds like a ...
- Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:33 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1195
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And the Irish ended the constitutional ban on blasphemy, too.