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Hopefully both of them end up answering in full for it.

I would ask if that was for real but I have little doubt that it is.

The only thing we should be wising up to is the fact that in a world where the strongest (read; most violent) win, their victory is both illusory and short-lived. Spoiler; in the end, in that world, no one wins.

most of what I meant about inflammatory language there. But what the article says about what has been done, and what is being done,and how quite a few people saw it coming, is rather harder to directly dismiss.

https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025 The language may be inflammatory. It may be "I told you so" in about 1500 words. But there's not much in there that isn't reasonably accurate.

Thanks for the viewpoints, enlightening.

The whole thing is a three ring circus of which PT Barnum would be proud no matter which way it's viewed, in any case.

With all of this said, what exactly is the best feasible outcome and how might be be achieved?

It's various shades of grey when you're actually viewing it outside the Earth's atmosphere, but yes, it can vary depending on circumstances when viewing it from inside that.

Yeah, and I think the same is true for any kind of office there. Even local officials go out fundraising the moment they're elected for the next election. It is a broken system, as you say. The problem is that the decisions that system makes often affect us all.

I think the difference in policy platforms concerning social and scientific matters tell their own story there, but fair enough. You do wonder where the people are who actually give a shit about something more than themselves are when it comes to leadership. Not seeking power, presumably, which is bad news for us all.

No doubt whatsoever there. However, with all that being equal, at least most of his predecessors had at least the common decency to have some kind of consideration for both the future and for people who didn't pay direct homage to them as some kind of absolute cult of personality monarch in their policy decision making. This administration is different there. If highlighting the corruption, as "business as usual" as it may be, somehow helps get in the way, then that's fair IMO.

Is it too much to expect that whatever Epstein information comes out in the coming days is utterly crippling to the current US administration and their deeply hostile intentions? Probably.

No disagreement there, particularly on the nature of choice. You're right in that any reasonable person likely would choose those as goals...but unfortunately I'm not naive and current event evidence shows that there are quite a few people, either through ignorance or malice, who are not that reasonable. And when those people have power, it becomes a problem.

No, they don't, and I think that is one of the biggest and most destructive fallacies going, often driven by folks who can't see past the idea of hierarchy - "I believe in the idea of inherent superiority and therefore it is immutably human and everyone else must too". No. Trump and those who follow him aren't inherently inferior to me or anyone else. They choose their path to be supremacist, as does anyone else. And that matter of choice means absolutely everything. And yes, trying for that kind of egalitarianism - or as close as we can get is the most pragmatic idea around, because it isn't simply some kind of lofty moral ideal. Long term, it is the only way our species and civilisation survives.

There's something in that. And then you have the power imbalance that often and still exists between those ideologies and demographics that makes it even more complicated to try to balance things without causing more division. At the end of the day, we're all human, we all have more in common than not, and goodness knows our species has enough problems to care about without making up these dividing lines between ourselves, based on factors that we have no control over. The problem is always the supremacists those who think they are inherently superior. Of whatever type.

If the point being made here is that Aus have been more competitive when touring despite not actually winning a series and England tend to fold like a cheap suit whenever they tour either Aus or India, then yes, of course both of those things are true.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp84pxvp87eo Latest in can't-quite-believe-how-banana-republic....

Drawing isn't winning though, and you can bet that means something to the Aussies.

Hundreds of years of different cultures across the world, regardless of dominant ethnic demographic have viewed various other demographics (women in particular) as inherently inferior. Is it really so hard to believe that they might switch to do so again, whether there's external pressures from other cultures or not? I really don't think anyone has much room to be looking down their nose on this one, except at an individual level, but so it goes.

I'm thinking that it would be very easy for such progress to backslide, and I think that backsliding could happen under almost any current monoculture as equally easily as any other, depending on circumstances. To believe otherwise is to believe some demographics are inherently more likely to be abusers...and that kind of inherent "bad qualities" is a rocky road with rather a lot of rocky history behind it.

That part of that sentence is having to do some very, very heavy lifting imo. And I feel now we're approaching the crux of the matter and a proposed solution; some particular demographics of people are apparently more inclined to mistreat women so simply focus on making them no longer part of the equation and that is the whole solution, yes?

As being socially inequal to them. Which, as mentioned before, could (but only could) be more of a factor in a world where such inequality of any kind is prevalent and accepted.

I'm inclined to think that an more inequal world creates an environment where some people are much more likely to think and believe that other people and demographics aren't equal to them and act accordingly to abuse power over them (such as in this case), but I'd be interested to hear other ideas.

Put it this way, one of the things you see when travelling is far greater abominations than pineapple that are put on pizzas, so...meh.