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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Most competent outside of the foreign policy team, which is only shaping up to be callously indifferent to human rights abuses.
Except the Japanese Ambassador, who seems to be the Only Sane Man and the only actually good pick.
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Yeah, because Europe and Asia were both beaten up pretty badly, while North America was pretty much unscathed, and South America, Africa and Oceania lack the ability to do anything with their resources.
edited 18th Jan '17 6:57:04 PM by Bat178
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Good for you. I think it has a long way to go because 1/2 of its dominant parties is a bunch of scumbags.
edited 18th Jan '17 7:20:03 PM by RAlexa21th
Continue writing our story of peace.Can anyone consider this interviewee--and any like her--an "ally" in the years ahead?
Also, an extra-cheery analysis of the future of 21st century democracy
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Assange responds to Obama's commutation of Manning's sentence. More specifically, he explains how it doesn't meet his standards so as to not require him to submit himself for extradition as a previous poster mentioned he'd tweeted a while back he would.
One wonders what going through his mind with that. I mean, if it had just been something he'd said months ago when he thought there was little chance he'd have to act on it, that'd be one thing, but he was repeating it last week, when we knew it was a possibility. Did he for some reason change his mind between then and now? Or is he playing some PR game that's beyond me? Is he, perhaps, egocentric enough to believe the possibility of arresting him was enough of a bargaining chip to get Manning released, and this is him patting himself on back for 'outsmarting' Obama?
Like, I mean, surely it's obvious to everyone that he's rules lawyering his way out of what he said.
@R Alexa: I don't think the democrats are that bad!
@Khokoko: Don't get the joke, I'm afraid.
edited 18th Jan '17 8:16:48 PM by Protagonist506
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Sorry; I didn't mean for it to be a joke. It's just that as is, the post felt, I don't know, unfinished? If that makes any sense. I figured adding in the old
would give it a bit more flavor, but all it did was make you think there was something more to it then there was. Again, sorry about that.
edited 18th Jan '17 8:13:32 PM by kkhohoho
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I assume Russia flops backward toward a more bland, banana republic style governance where the leader pays supporters off, a la Zaire, to keep office, unless there's another good political poker player in the waiting.
Still, one point of that article and another Vox analysis from earlier is that populist regimes don't just interrupt liberal democracy. That form of government is rather fragile compared to ruling through clients and control of resources.
edited 18th Jan '17 8:14:13 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesTrump picks former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue as his Department of Agriculture secretary.
Well, right now I don't think America is all that cool. It's not a word I would really associate with the Trump presidency, in any sense, except "it would have been cool if we could have avoided this".
I have to confess that I view the concept of patriotism from a pretty jaded standpoint in general. Conceptually I have no problem with it, but it MUST be accompanied with a strong sense of self-evaluation and self-criticism, because it's way too easy to fall into the trap of "everything our country does or says is great because our country does it" rather than "our country will be great if it does great things, and we should do everything we can to make that possible".
