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Yes, I'm sure the average member of the working class understands that its quantitative easing and the tax/spend ratio which affects them most, and aren't at all bothered by alien races and cultures invading their home town and committing crimes in their community.uziq wrote:
don’t confuse the refugee crisis with multiculturalism. most people electing right-wing nationalists into power in europe are working-class people who got sold down the river by the banking-european elites with their austerity. africans and arabs crossing the med are not the cause of their problems.
Because you're very familiar with Australia aren't you?you’ll note that dilbert lives in arguably the most multicultural country in the world. arguably one of the healthiest and best-functioning democracies in terms of equality and social mobility. a country built by irish, english, greeks, vietnamese, chinese, etc. if multiculturalism is a woo act foisted on people by elites, why is it working so well there?
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Urbanization means tall skyscrapers.Jay wrote:
I'm not going to parse this out because it's a pain to do on a phone.
You point to cities not being new, but they are. Up until the late 1800s anything taller than maybe 2 or 3 stories was a skyscraper. We're denser than ever and have more interactions on a daily basis.
I know that the push is for urbanization and the eradication of suburban sprawl but cities are fucking awful for mental health.
Our social interactions didn't change because we have more people living in cities. Ancient Rome is estimated to have been home to over a million, Constantinople boasted at least 600k at its height, Vienna was a major metropolitan centre in its prime Thousands of years earlier the cities of Mesopotamia weren't exactly tiny either.Jay wrote:
I'm not going to parse this out because it's a pain to do on a phone.
You point to cities not being new, but they are. Up until the late 1800s anything taller than maybe 2 or 3 stories was a skyscraper. We're denser than ever and have more interactions on a daily basis.
I know that the push is for urbanization and the eradication of suburban sprawl but cities are fucking awful for mental health.
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I wonder if its coincidence that all three 'populist' outcomes are delivering tax cuts for the rich?SuperJail Warden wrote:
Those are all English speaking Protestant nations. Right wing and populist parties took control in a lot of other European and industrialized countries but without putting the most unqualified person (senile Donald Trump) in office or blowing up their political system (Brexit). English speaking countries seem unique in the fact that their citizens are willing to knowingly hurt themselves in order to stick it to cultural enemies.Dilbert wrote:
It hasn't worked and has not been accepted, hence we have Trump elected in America in a 'surprise' result, Brexit being the 'surprise' popular choice in the UK, and conservatives achieving a 'surprise' election result in Australia.
Johnson is spending money which doesn't exist, Blair borrowed to fight Israel's war for them, Britain is proper fucked now.uziq wrote:
in the UK we now have a conservative party that is trying to emphasise it is driving up public spending ... after they imposed a senseless and miserable decade of austerity on the nation, because of the previous social democrat’s ‘crazy public spending’. the trick would be shameless if it weren’t so effective. how do they get away with this smoke and mirrors shit every time?
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