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YF-23 posted:Do you want to discuss feminism in the context of European politics? Then this is the thread for you! Do you want to discuss feminism in a more general context? Then I'm afraid this is not the thread for you.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2016 13:31 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 21:40 |
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Velkest posted:we must pretend refugees are civil, lawabiding people who respect women and children, against all of reality?
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2016 17:44 |
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Majorian posted:No, I'm saying that when secularism (or religion or morality or whatever) is enforced in a way that is pretty clearly targeted towards any minority group, it makes it considerably less likely that that minority group will assimilate.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 18:54 |
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Majorian posted:Yeah, the emphasis was meant to be on the "enforced" part of "enforced secularism."
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 19:20 |
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Majorian posted:Stuff like banning clothing that is predominantly worn by Muslim women out of piety, for example. That sort of thing signals to the Muslim minority that their values are incompatible with the West's, which is not a message you want to send if you want them to integrate. That said, it seems somewhat unfair to associate these bans with secularism as they're ultimately just veiled racism.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 19:56 |
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Cat Mattress posted:In the specific case of France, you've got to understand that there isn't any popular left-wing candidate -- there's no Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, w
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2016 18:15 |
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YF-23 posted:Fukushima's lesson isn't that safety standards must be followed. We already loving knew that. Fukushima's lesson is that standards will inevitably not be followed, given enough time. The real takeaway is not "they hosed up and they shouldn't have", it's just, simply, "they hosed up". I find that people who are pro-nuclear power are too focused on theory and what could be done - but it's not the theory I'm worried about, it's the practical application.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 20:37 |
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Friendly Humour posted:Yeah, and renewables people never harp on about the 'potential' of renewables if only we just invested and buitl uit. And in the meantime those good ol' coal plants from the soviet era keep chugging away in east germany. Super solution
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 20:50 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Well, obviously if you assume government is completely useless, then there's not much to be done.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 20:53 |
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Andrast posted:I guess we could just shove money into science and hope for a breakthrough that magically changes that but that's not exactly realistic.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 20:57 |
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Andrast posted:Nuclear energy works right now, renewables don't. If you want to reduce the usage of fossil fuels by a relevant amount nuclear is basically the only option. MeLKoR posted:If potential for disaster is the deciding factor then we should go back to animal power.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 21:05 |
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Andrast posted:Not as the main base of your energy. Renewables can be an additional energy resource but they absolutely need something else to form the base of the energy structure (some countries with a fuckload of hydropower might be an exception).
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 21:11 |
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Cat Mattress posted:But as long as your nuclear power plants are managed by a competent administration that is concerned entirely by security and reliability and gives absolutely zero gently caress at all to profitability, corner cutting, and the masturbation habits of shareholders, nuclear power is the best option we have currently.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 21:57 |
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Flowers for Algeria is right and we should start by renationalising the energy sector and then continue by nationalising the rest as well.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 21:59 |
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Flowers For Algeria posted:I'm more interested in knowing if this failed Columbine poo poo will revive moral panics about Death Metal, video games and satanism.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 19:31 |
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LemonDrizzle posted:This is completely incorrect - there was a strong negative public reaction against any suggestion of going easy on Greece in several northern and eastern european countries.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 17:35 |
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Seph posted:more educated, wealthy and open minded than average. All of those traits are pretty anti-fascist in nature
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# ¿ May 7, 2017 16:45 |
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It's even better when you realise that's actually his cartoon about the Paris terror attacks.
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# ¿ May 7, 2017 20:10 |
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Fiction posted:
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# ¿ May 9, 2017 16:30 |
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What kind of pathetic idiot would you have to be to do that?
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# ¿ May 9, 2017 16:31 |
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:You're being sardonic but yeah, i'm asking the same question; only literally.
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# ¿ May 9, 2017 16:39 |
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I don't think Le Pen or any Le Pen-ite is ever going to win the presidency. What's going to happen is that she'll be a contender and pull the rhetoric on issues like immigration and race to the right, but the French will never become majority fascist or not turn out in sufficient numbers to keep her out. Elections like this one will become the new normal for a while, probably until Le Pen retires/is couped, with things continually getting worse and worse and worse. If there's one thing you can bet on in Western European politics it's the general hatred for and fear of actual meaningful change.
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# ¿ May 17, 2017 17:26 |
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GaussianCopula posted:"if you don't support us Nazis will take power". In my opinion its a terrible argument
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# ¿ May 17, 2017 18:15 |
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Orange Devil posted:Are you really this naive or just really stupid?
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# ¿ May 20, 2017 17:52 |
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tempon por esperanto por brili
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# ¿ May 22, 2017 14:25 |
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Cat Mattress posted:Well the answer is obvious, when you actually bother to think about it.
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# ¿ May 26, 2017 14:54 |
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GaussianCopula posted:It seems like soldiers on the streets do actually provide some protection against (incompetent) terrorists
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 11:43 |
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Deltasquid posted:They prevented a possible days-long manhunt and terror alert and 48 hour media scandal and reduced it to a news ticker. It's taking the "terror" out of terrorism. How is this hard to grasp.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 12:18 |
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:I don't think anyone ever advocated for soldiers replacing police. The point is to get more people with guns on the street in a very short time.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 12:31 |
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Deltasquid posted:This is false, we keep gutting our police force to the point that off-duty police officers were asked to do extra work on the weekends when guarding the French border back when we reintroduced border checks with the Bataclan. They're even talking about reducing the police's work to "the core of police work" and leaving silly things like guarding banks and regulating traffic at intersections to private security like G4S. And yeah, like you said, the privatisation of the police force is straight garbage. But we're not at the point yet where we're running that low on cops that we can't up the security at major hot spots without relying on soldiers. The issue is that while they can do it, thanks to budget cuts, it means taking that manpower from elsewhere. I guess you've got a point in saying rather soldiers than nobody, but ultimately it's just papering over the cracks. And not only are those cracks going to get bigger, it's also the principle of it - soldiers don't belong on our streets. It sends the wrong message on so many fronts, aside from being plain wrong on principle.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 13:51 |
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Einbauschrank posted:Wow, this Melenchon really demonstrates why he's the left's posterboy:
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 15:49 |
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Orange Devil posted:Italians are basically the Americans of Europe.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 21:23 |
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Phlegmish posted:That is purely a New Left idea, limited to the West and the last fifty years. Beyond that context, you might have had the rhetoric about internationalism, but it never amounted to much in practice. In many Cold War conflicts, the liberation struggle was inextricably linked to nationalism, often to excess. Pol Pot murdered Vietnamese and Christians, North Korea aborts half-Chinese babies, Stalin deported the Chechens, the list goes on. They are not necessarily great examples to follow, but it's stupid to say that Mélenchon is a bad leftist because he is actually distinguishable from a generic liberal waffling about European integration and how borders are evil. He just deviates from the current norm.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 12:39 |
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Kurtofan posted:oof i like this article a lot
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 10:26 |
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Now that the French, the Germans and the Brits have their own thread, Europol's finally ready for its true purpose: Belgian politics they're poo poo!
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2017 17:13 |
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unpacked robinhood posted:Belgium worked reasonably well with no government.
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2017 20:49 |
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MiddleOne posted:It's still immensely funny to me that Belgium pretty much made it out well of the Eurozone crisis almost exclusively by not having a government that could enact austerity.
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2017 20:57 |
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lollontee posted:Hey if you wanna go and deny that the Congolese retain a national identity and a state older than their conquest by the colonialist powers, you do you mate.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 14:04 |
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Hambilderberglar posted:What would one read on Congolese history? I don't know enough about that area of the world to know who's wrong and would like to change this. (Mainly to yell at someone for being wrong) Cerebral Bore posted:What exactly is disingenious about using the Congo as a counterexample to the idea that a countries with a large population, vast natural resources and a huge amount of land can always industrialize super easily?
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 20:09 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 21:40 |
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nimby posted:Speaking of Belgium, a recent poll was leaked that shows the fallout of several corruption affairs in Brussels and Wallonia. The Parti Socialiste which was at the center of them loses big and the voters are going hard left. The PTB (extreme left) would be the biggest party with 24,9%, where in the last election they got 5. Cerebral Bore posted:I don't want to belabour the obvious, but the whole point to a counterexample is to pick an object of comparison that shares the characteristics of the object under disussion that are claimed to be decisive, yet differs from it in some significant way that demonstrates that the characteristics in question were in fact not the decisive ones.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2017 13:45 |