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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostOn the other side, and who knows if its a valid other side, Ireland is perhaps the european country best positioned to capitalise on UK/US isolationism if they view us as a 'not too different' country (given that about 20% of UK and US are Irish descendant) that they therefore might want to base their operations in. Althoug, that might be a foolhardy confident view.
We are miles and miles and miles behind other Euro countries in this regard. We should be best placed, but we never build the things that we promise.
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostThere is a scene from an Irish movie where some oul fella (maybe colm meaney?) drinks a pint of guinness and a whiskey all in one go.
What is it?Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Postnot the snapper? not sure if he has a whiskey in that
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostYeah he's really pro-choice. SCOTUS is safe I think. Trump is going to have the best approval ratings. Highest in decades imo.
Actually didn't get the impression that abortion was any kind of issue in the election at all. Trump isn't even a Republican anyway so hardly feels the need to pander to the pro-lifers."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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It really is Brexit II.
Say anything, regardless of truth. Get over the line by exploiting fear and ignorance.
Have no idea what happens next.
Profit????
Hopefully, hopefully people get it into their heads tbat actions have consequences."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostTremendous abortions, beautiful abortions.
Actually didn't get the impression that abortion was any kind of issue in the election at all. Trump isn't even a Republican anyway so hardly feels the need to pander to the pro-lifers.
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maybe it wasnt meaney and some other oul fella.
Thinking the Van alrightPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Postmaybe it wasnt meaney and some other oul fella.
Thinking the Van alrightThe sport that unites Catholic, Protestant and dissenter has had its day of days. Pity anybody who can't enjoy it. Some day. Gerry Thornley 23/3/09
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Hopefully FG will finally see that any efforts on their part to pander to those elements of the electorate that simply will never vote for them should be seen for what they are; complete wastes of time, effort and budget. I know they were probably forced into it by the independents or FF, but raising the dole by €5 a week is just handing cash to PBP/AAA and SF voters, who will continue to despise FG and no matter what level of social transfers are in place, they'll always want more. Trying to be inclusive in the current environment is madness and dilutes your message; better to put out your stall as 'the party of the middle class', 'the party of the big farmers', 'the party for FDI and big business', whatever you choose to focus on!
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Personally think he's very different in private and we shall see how he actually runs things now. People generally have no idea what he really believes but I know he knows how to win and he did/said what it took. Doesnt hinder that his opponent is a sack of potatoes, yet still surprised her name wasn't enough even after all that.That was a crazy night and election cycle.
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Went over my rda allowance of salt listening to radio 1 on the drive home there,Bertie "good friends of bill and Hillary" Aherne was on, think they settled on sexism in the end. Amazing how the media are calling upon everyone who called it utterly wrong to explain how it's all going to play out now that what they said couldn't happen has happened
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Thought this was a good read. The author posits neoliberalism as the root of what we see lately.
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
I know enough to know how little I know, so I'm conscious of the fact that it's probably very biased, but a lot of it rings true to my surface level analysis at least.
Neoliberal policies are everywhere beset by market failures. Not only are the banks too big to fail, but so are the corporations now charged with delivering public services. As Tony Judt pointed out in Ill Fares the Land, Hayek forgot that vital national services cannot be allowed to collapse, which means that competition cannot run its course. Business takes the profits, the state keeps the risk.
The greater the failure, the more extreme the ideology becomes. Governments use neoliberal crises as both excuse and opportunity to cut taxes, privatise remaining public services, rip holes in the social safety net, deregulate corporations and re-regulate citizens. The self-hating state now sinks its teeth into every organ of the public sector.
Perhaps the most dangerous impact of neoliberalism is not the economic crises it has caused, but the political crisis. As the domain of the state is reduced, our ability to change the course of our lives through voting also contracts. Instead, neoliberal theory asserts, people can exercise choice through spending. But some have more to spend than others: in the great consumer or shareholder democracy, votes are not equally distributed. The result is a disempowerment of the poor and middle. As parties of the right and former left adopt similar neoliberal policies, disempowerment turns to disenfranchisement. Large numbers of people have been shed from politics.
Chris Hedges remarks that “fascist movements build their base not from the politically active but the politically inactive, the ‘losers’ who feel, often correctly, they have no voice or role to play in the political establishment”. When political debate no longer speaks to us, people become responsive instead to slogans, symbols and sensation. To the admirers of Trump, for example, facts and arguments appear irrelevant.
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Looking forward to ends telling trump what he thinks
“And the Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny insisted he would tell Mr Trump why he believes some of his views are racist and dangerous”
Independent, June 2016.
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Originally posted by Emmet View Post'Neo-liberalism' is the new Púca.
It is the 'white male privilege' of the left. A catchall term that is used to denigrate anything that isn't Marxist pretty much.
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Hopefully Teneo go out of business off the back of this and Podesta and all the other creeps take a big hit. lol Eric Schmidt too
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostPersonally think he's very different in private and we shall see how he actually runs things now. People generally have no idea what he really believes but I know he knows how to win and he did/said what it took. Doesnt hinder that his opponent is a sack of potatoes, yet still surprised her name wasn't enough even after all that.That was a crazy night and election cycle.
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Originally posted by PSV58 View PostLooking forward to ends telling trump what he thinks
“And the Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny insisted he would tell Mr Trump why he believes some of his views are racist and dangerous”
Independent, June 2016.The sport that unites Catholic, Protestant and dissenter has had its day of days. Pity anybody who can't enjoy it. Some day. Gerry Thornley 23/3/09
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Originally posted by Emmet View Post'Neo-liberalism' is the new Púca.
It is the 'white male privilege' of the left. A catchall term that is used to denigrate anything that isn't Marxist pretty much."Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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Incredible what he achieved. No political experience, knocked out 16 other nominees, and without the support of his party, or a strong ground game, and with nearly the full media against him, defeated a lifelong political operator. And on a fraction of the budget. Think that definitely settles the genius versus buffoon argument.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostOr it's just a term borne of the fact that many people's lives and range of opportunity is not improving in the west and the system is deliberately designed for that to continue being the case. And they're going to be rightly fucked off about it.
Abstract yourself.
Define the new system.
Tell us how it's different.
Tell us how it's better.
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Feels like I'm talking to Mick the lip/jimmy wales when I'm reading the Guardian online the past few weeks
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostIt really is Brexit II.
Say anything, regardless of truth. Get over the line by exploiting fear and ignorance.
Have no idea what happens next.
Profit????
Hopefully, hopefully people get it into their heads tbat actions have consequences.Is that how you crash a wedding? yes it is, Bionic Barry, yes it is.
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Originally posted by Zod View PostYis all thought I was exaggerating the whole fascism thing, and yet, here we are.
"Now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division. We have to get together.
"To all Republicans and Democrats and Independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people. It’s time.
"I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be President for all Americans and this is so important to me.
"For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so we can work together and unify our great country.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIt is amazing what he has achieved.
Although lets not forget the bigger issue of whether being elected based on racism is a good thing.
Just because something was incredibly difficult to do and an outstanding personal achievement, doesn't mean it is for the good of society.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostIncredible what he achieved. No political experience, knocked out 16 other nominees, and without the support of his party, or a strong ground game, and with nearly the full media against him, defeated a lifelong political operator. And on a fraction of the budget. Think that definitely settles the genius versus buffoon argument.
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Originally posted by GimmeabreakI, as a seemingly rational individual, albeit self appraised, attempted early this year to do a very large double on Bremain & Clinton on the basis that others (voters) were also rational. I couldn't get the bet away and prices swung against me so I left it. I doubt I would ever have staked so much on such a sure thing and been so spectacularly wrong in my life had I been able to get the bet down.
/Aftertiming.
PS, the world is fucked.
Ian Leslie - 7/6/2016
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Originally posted by Keane View PostIt's a pretty long article, he kind of explains what he's talking about after the headline.
He also talks about anarcho-capitalism and not neo-liberalism.
Originally posted by Guardian ArticleFreedom from trade unions and collective bargaining means the freedom to suppress wages. Freedom from regulation means the freedom to poison rivers, endanger workers, charge iniquitous rates of interest and design exotic financial instruments. Freedom from tax means freedom from the distribution of wealth that lifts people out of poverty.
Originally posted by Mises WikiAccording to anarcho-capitalists, personal and economic activities would be regulated by the natural laws of the market and through private law rather than through politics.
Actually, I've just found this pretty seriously useful response to the Guardian' article on the Mises site itself
George Monbiot's attack on neoliberalism fails to account for the conflict between the Austrian school and the neoliberals.
Originally posted by Mises InstituteYou wouldn't know any of this from reading Mirowski, or from reading Monbiot for that matter, who simply classifies anything other than Eduard-Berstein-style democratic socialism as "neoliberalism."Originally posted by Mises InstituteMonbiot doesn't do this, of course. He constructed an interesting historical and sociological theory — sans any economic arguments — in which the rise of neoliberalism has created many social ills. If we rely on Monbiot's analysis, though, what aspects of neoliberalism have caused these alleged problems is anybody's guess.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostHe started his campaign by calling mexicans rapists, then proceeded to highlight that all muslims are potentially terrorists. Has the definition of racism changed so much that these are no longer racist things to say? That pointing at a race and saying they all do this bad thing is now not racist?
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
This isn't the victory speech of a racist:
"To all Republicans and Democrats and Independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people. It’s time.
"I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be President for all Americans and this is so important to me.
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