Rayvin
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I mean, you never know but this piece of research seems to conclude that it wasn't at all significant. http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/did-bernie-sanders-cost-hillary-clinton-the-presidency/ A key bit from it for me is that a higher proportion of Sanders voters backed Clinton than Clinton supporters backed Obama in 2008. Suggests that if there was a cluster of voters who moved away from her, it was within normal alignments.
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I can see them not voting, but i can't see them voting Trump. I checked last night and there is scant evidence that Bernie's supporters in any way killed Hillary's campaign. Don't know why it would be any different this time.
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And I really hope it means Brexit is indeed fucked. Can't quite bring myself to believe that in a meaningful sense though.
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I'm not going to pretend I'm anywhere near as well read as the author of this piece with respect of the imperial connotations of Johnson's thinking, but it basically supports what I was saying in the coronavirus thread. Covid is a serious threat to free trade between countries and wider globalisation. Really informative article.
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I've read some opinion that they may just be stalling turning around on it until June/July since they don't actually have to make the decision yet. But honestly it wouldn't surprise me is they press ahead regardless. And if they do that, then actually, maybe they know something we don't and it's not going to be as bad as we think. I can't fathom why any government would continue otherwise, it makes no logical sense.
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It's going to be some contest, that's for sure
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Oh I see. Well I suppose fair enough then.
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This guy had it right. Lower tolls on Sundays and Monday's down to NHS procedures interrupted over the weekend. Tuesday bears the brunt of it and we recorded 938 deaths today.
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That's probably all true but i wasn't saying anything supportive of the EU here. I was critical of them for their so far fairly poor handling of it. Unless I've missed something in what you're saying.
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He has one advantage over Clinton IMO, and that's the fact that Trump has actually been in power. Removing Trump is significant, maybe he just needs to build everything around that one point. I still don't know if it'll be enough but honestly, I hope it is. I don't think Biden is going to fix very much at all for the Americans, but that's their problem and not mine. He's better for the rest of us than Trump is.
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Those videos of Biden touching visibly uncomfortable children are going to be in a campaign ad from Trump, I'm sure of it. "Who would you trust with your children?" At least we get to see if the centre's collapse really was an anomaly.
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The right decision from Sanders, he clearly wasn't going to win. Well, now we get to see how Trump is going to handle it. Let's hope Biden can really start to hurt him.
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Which bit? The EU thing was reported in the news this afternoon, and the aspect concerning countries stealing medical supplies and requisitioning items intended for other countries has been in the news generally. Turkey stopped a shipment of ventilators to Spain, the US have upset both Germany and Canada by interfering with supplies , Canada has threaded to retaliate. I just have a feeling that some of the cracks are starting to open up.
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I've been playing this recently and was thinking to myself earlier that they should have pandemics as a global event
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Looks like the EU is struggling to put together a package to sort things out financially - not impressive so far. I'm starting to get a slight sense that the change that COVID is going to give us all might not be the socialist utopia vision, but the ultra isolationist, dog eat dog collapse of the international order. We're starting to see countries clambering over each other to ensure they get supplies already, which will (I would imagine) lead to countries determining that they cannot trust the international markets in times of crisis, and conclude that their only option is to produce themselves to make sure they're protected against future eventualities. I think overall it's another blow for globalism.
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Laying the groundwork to blame everyone else. Which will succeed for the most part because Americans are so insulated against the outside world they'll just believe it.
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How is it even an example of tolerance. Fuck PJW, he's a fuckwit at the best of times, but it's not like "the left" have been out there stopping anyone clapping for the deranged egomaniac. We just don't give a fuck. That's still tolerance.
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It's genuinely not worth it on some issues man, for the sake of my sanity I'm better off keeping quiet
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Perfect. Yeah I'm feeling a lot better about my lack of concern for him after reading some of her earlier work.
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Fidel Castro was a father, a grandfather, and someone with family and friends. He was a fellow human being and was desperately unwell. Stupid right wing cunts should just try to remember that Hypocritical dickheads.
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I think Renton both hates and loves bad news. I'm a bit that way so maybe I'm projecting, but i do feel like it's a thing.
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Aye that was pretty savage from Cat Ouch.
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I have no sympathy. I tried to, I know I should, but I just don't. He spent years fucking the country over to get to where he is, and now there's a sense of karma about the whole thing. I don't wish him dead, but I will not, on any level, shed a tear if he goes. If that makes me a cunt, I don't care. That's what his shitshow Brexit project has reduced me too. I won't celebrate his passing if it comes to it, but I certainly won't give a single fuck.
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EDIT - you're completely right and I have to stop having an opinion on here about this Carry on.
