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Yeah, it was at the wrong time, and executed in about the worst possible fashion. I think a vote on PR would stand a much better chance today.

And therein lies the problem with the human condition and ego. People don't like being wrong or being pointed out that they're being manipulated. Even when they are and they are. And that applies across the spectrum of political beliefs.

And Just Fontaine scored 13 (in six games) in 1958! Think that record will take some breaking.

Could just have a solid gold statue of himself, instead - would have the same effect.

That single foreign policy decision outweighed all the domestic policy successes he may have had. And there were some, certainly with the NHS. How it goes, I suppose. NB. He was also probably the last PM to be able to combine charisma with to appeal to a lot of people with policy decisions that didn't directly appeal to the base desires of populists.

It possibly doesn't help, that's true - another difficulty in communication. It doesn't stop the facts of the matter being what they are, though. Believe me, I wish I knew a better way to make sure the frustration was no longer needed, particularly as time is going by and changes are happening ever more rapidly. There's no sane reason to expect that things will be OK if we go on as we are, barring a completely undiscovered miracle. Edit: I could frame things in a way that it didn't appear a factor - but what good does that dishonesty do?

Appreciate the elaboration. Again, I would say that it does help show that standard political compassing is rather passe these days.

They both do appear to be occupying each others water right now. Which is a good thing for future policy decision making, at least in most areas.

On a long enough timeline, quite probably.

Possibly that's because, quite franky, it doesn't appear that they really have anything else of prestige to hang their hat on. A mite sad, really.

... which in turn, countless billions of years ago, was hydrogen and oxygen atoms shat out by cyanobacteria. Isn't life wonderful.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c872e8d9el1o US President Donald Trump says he has "inspected" the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, and that "work will begin immediately" to repair the American landmark. Despite a recent multi-million dollar renovation, including a fresh coat of blue paint, the historic structure continues to face issues - most prominently algae turning the water a bright shade of green. The pool may need to be drained and refilled for a second time this month, according to Trump, who flew over the site in a helicopter on Sunday while on his way back from Camp David. It comes as Trump claims the pool's paint has been marred by vandals ahead of the 250th anniversary of the country's 4 July independence day. US Attorney for Washington DC Jeanine Pirro has vowed to aggressively prosecute anyone found to have damaged the pool. "Anyone who is in a position of vandalising or attempting to vandalise will face the criminal justice system in DC," she told Fox News on Sunday. According to a senior Trump administration official, five people have been arrested for vandalism and five more were issued with citations by police on Saturday night. This whole saga really sums this administration up. Ignorance of scientific causality... check. So thin-skinned any mockery, no matter accurate, is viewed as hostile... check. Finding a scapegoat among the "out-group" to blame for ones own incompetence...check. Cultist behaviour in which the very idea of truth is subverted...check.

Double standards from Argentina on the football pitch? Never! Though Messi isn't half bad, is he.

Have to make sure the hosts have shown all the adverts that have been paid for.

Just to clear things up right away here, he has said as much in previous posts. (To say nothing of his posting history being reasonably obvious on that matter too.) That being said, as per discussion had here before, the whole idea of political compassing is based on a really old French government structure that really doesn't hold up in this day and age imo. It's much more directly about self-interest-societal interest as an axis these days.

If there is going to be one, water will be the next great resource war. And likely the last great one, too.

Got to love a good bit of survivorship bias. Especially when a lot of lives and health and economic stability is at stake.

Or everyone's favourite: "It was worse in that summer in 1976..."

Of course, and goodness knows how ridiculous the polarisation is and appears to be. Except about Russell Martin, that appears to an area of rare uniamnity.

Not sure how controversial threads about watches, cars, running 5k, Wordle, and some scientific weather discussion can get if I'm honest.

Wave of the future, huh?

For me, it's either ignorance or self interest, viz. "Other people's life can get worse so long as mine gets better". And yes, people (for the most part) haven't seen this go really sideways, so they appear to think it can't happen. Wrong. Dead wrong, maybe.

This is stated as if it is somehow different to the way the other major parties act at that time. Or, in some cases, honest execution of their stated policies actually being potentially much worse than lying about them.

And to expand on this, a lot of people appear to either fail to grasp or grasp all too well that there are degrees of shit, and that we've barely scratched the surface in terms of how shit things can get, based on people's decision making.

... and that then becomes their problem and their responsibility when things go horribly sideways. Which it will. And may be already, in at least some places.