Quote from: The Minsky Moment on Today at 07:59:06 PMQuote from: Razgovory on Today at 12:19:41 PMSo Hamas has come back out of their hidey holes and back to executing dissidents, I guess things are going back to normal. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/middleeast/gaza-hamas-security-war-intl
Yes of course. Between Hamas and Israel, any possible expression of Palestinian civil society in Gaza has been utterly destroyed. Hamas is all there is left to fill the vacuum. Which of course serves the Likudniks just fine because it ensures Gaza will remain weak and isolated and destitute, as well as feed their hard-line security narrative. It's a symbiotic relationship.
Quote from: mongers on October 10, 2025, 04:59:22 PM'The Goodfather II' - seen for the first time, Al Pacino rules, no meaningful artistic comments from me.Yes, because it's the last one in the series and it brings closure to the series, but it's not as good as the other 2.
Is the third one worth a viewing?
Quote from: Razgovory on Today at 12:19:41 PMSo Hamas has come back out of their hidey holes and back to executing dissidents, I guess things are going back to normal. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/middleeast/gaza-hamas-security-war-intl
Quote from: Josquius on September 27, 2025, 06:44:25 AMI really don't get who Mr Terrific is or why the Green Lantern is weird. Or the elemental guy or other guys in prison. Or a lot. This messes with my head.I've seen with my nephew.
Quote from: Tamas on Today at 03:16:17 PMDo you think that is conceiveable?!
Seriously what kind of a comment is that, if we are only allowed to comment on speculate on things that we have the most detailed understanding of of anyone on the planet, there won't be much left to discuss.
Quote from: Valmy on Today at 05:14:44 PMDidn't she actually sail there are get arrested or something? Seems bizarre to have such sneering contempt for somebody who actually put their ass on the line.
Also what exactly is your criticism here? Is there some concrete action one individual person can do that would instantly solve all these problems? I mean if US Presidents have flailed importently for decades it seems insane to direct your ire at some random powerless private person. Seems like the people who actually have power, money, and resources and still miserably fail at everything would be more worthy of your contempt.
Quote from: crazy canuck on Today at 11:03:25 AMAgain, that is a very American centric view if the world. A parliamentary system does have competing branches of government. The flaw in the US system is it did create competing branches and hoped each branch would be a check on the others.
The Parliament system encourages cooperation. For a third time (because you keep ignoring this point) a non confidence vote, like a budget vote, means there is a new general election. That tends to focus the mind on what compromises are possible.
It also gives a lot of power to back benchers if someone like Trump (or Vance) were to arise.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on Today at 02:32:29 PMClearly Greta Thunberg needs to chant from the river to the sea some more.
Like the previous dozen times.
They obviously have to do it again. Next time it'll definitely work and Hamas will stop killing Palestinians by sheer moral force.
Quotejust seems like Presidential systems have authoritarianism much more baked into them
Quote from: Tamas on Today at 03:19:58 PMA parlamentiary as opposed to presidential democracy is better no argument there, but just from my limited knowledge I can raise Hungary as a parlamentiary democracy that has failed. It even had a very modern two-rounds election system which was far superior to something like the British first past the post nonsense but once an actor like Orban got a constitutional majority it all went to hell.
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