Nostalgia isn't based on whether the days were actually good or bad but I'm also pretty sure normally formed adults aren't thinking about Nazi Germany as the good old times.

Nostalgia isn't based on whether the days were actually good or bad but I'm also pretty sure normally formed adults aren't thinking about Nazi Germany as the good old times.

I think you're taking the whole thing a bit too seriously

Nostalgia isn't based on whether the days were actually good or bad but I'm also pretty sure normally formed adults aren't thinking about Nazi Germany as the good old times.

I've seen too many people who actually do. :-(

Mind you, it's mostly old farts who are still not old enough to actually have lived back then but are old enough to have lived through the bad aftermath.

lol i guess everyone hates the current brexit deal so much that a bunch of conservative MPs are resigning.

wait what? Public means private? Is this like how in America conservative means liberal?

Nostalgia isn't based on whether the days were actually good or bad but I'm also pretty sure normally formed adults aren't thinking about Nazi Germany as the good old times.

Also, no, businesses are not being “pushed” to pay employees more. Adjusted for inflation, wages have decreased 20% since 1990. Businesses are paying their workers less than ever. Economists have been reporting that despite full employment, US employers are not behaving like they’re competing for workers. This is not how markets are supposed to work. Businesses are clearly colluding to suppress wages well below market rates.

No. It’s because the schools were run by the public, rather than by the state. In North America they’re called private schools because they’re private property. I’m sure this says something about our respective cultures.

Adjust for inflation, US wages have increased very slightly since 1990.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/

I expect that a glut of labor worldwide has contributed to the increasing difficulty for lower skill first world laborers to continue to demand a vastly disproportionate amount of the world's resources for what is increasingly the exact same work.

Watched Death of a Nation. Some moments are hilarious. Much of it is boring.

I had the thought though, so much of what he expresses are true facts with no context. It's a stellar example of why being able to contextualize knowledge is as important as knowledge. When you grasp for straws with no context, any interpretation is possible.

I'd recommend it for nobody but Wookie.

Time to create an IMDB page, Reid.

President Trump could be forgiven if he feels like the walls are closing in on him.

Edward Luce

Merely for having sat calmly through George H.W. Bush’s funeral on Wednesday, Donald Trump was hailed by some as having turned a more presidential page. Alas, it was another Groundhog Day in a loop of Trumpian false dawns. Since then, Mr Trump announced the exit of his chief of staff, John Kelly, appointed Heather Nauert, a former Fox News talking head, to be the next UN ambassador, named a new attorney-general, William Barr, and was effectively labelled a criminal by his own Department of Justice. For good measure, he also called Rex Tillerson, his former secretary of state, “dumb as a rock” and “lazy as hell”.

Mr Trump is battening down the hatches for the second half of his presidential term. It promises to be much stormier than the first. Robert Mueller, the special counsel, is methodically lining up his targets for what increasingly looks like a recommended indictment of Mr Trump for more than one federal crime. On Friday, “individual #1”, as Mr Trump is called in the filings, was implicated in a federal crime in the sentencing reports for Michael Cohen, his estranged personal lawyer, and Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman.

The filings were heavily redacted. But even from what was visible, they establish connections between the Russian government and people around Mr Trump from as early as November 2015 — eight months before he took the Republican nomination. The chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, once said that Mr Trump “had more Russia connections than Aeroflot”. Mr Mueller has by no means finished mapping them out. “Individual #1” also directed Mr Cohen to break federal election laws in the payment of hush money to two women.

The looming denouement of Mr Mueller’s investigations coincide with the Democratic takeover of the US House of Representatives, which formally starts in early January. Mr Trump remains fixated before then on securing funding for his border wall. But the walls closing in on his presidency are more tangible than the one on the Mexican border. Nancy Pelosi, the likely next Speaker, will find it very hard to avoid moves towards impeachment given the volume of potential felonies Mr Mueller is amassing. Either way, she will move to subpoena Mr Trump’s tax records, which is likely to trigger a battle in the Supreme Court, back hearings into Mr Trump’s alleged breaking of the US constitution’s emoluments clause, investigate the Trump Organisation’s alleged Russian money laundering, and could back moves to haul up the president’s family, including his two sons, Eric and Donald Junior, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to testify.

Mr Trump clearly senses what is in store. On Friday, the Democratic senator, Richard Blumenthal, told a cable news channel that “the pieces of the mosaic or the puzzle are coming into place.” Mr Trump responded on Twitter by calling the senator “the dick”. He also announced that he had been cleared by Mr Mueller’s latest filings while also repeating his call for the “witch hunt” to be closed down. Mr Barr, his new attorney-general, takes a robust view of executive privilege and a dim view of the powers of special counsels. Unlike Jeff Sessions, his fired predecessor, Mr Barr will probably not be forced to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation. In other words, the walls are also closing in on Mr Mueller.

Meanwhile, Mr Kelly, the outgoing chief of staff, will leave a White House in disarray. The four-star general has plenty of critics — not least for having robustly supported Mr Trump’s militarisation of the US-Mexico border and incarceration of undocumented children. But he did try to impose some semblance of order on Mr Trump’s routine. His success was questionable. In the book, Fear, by Robert Woodward, earlier this year, Mr Kelly is quoted as calling Mr Trump “an idiot.” He continued: “It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything…….We’re in crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here.” Mr Trump’s answer is that the role of White House staff should be to protect him — even when he refuses to take advice. The question is whether it is now too late for such advice to make much difference.

Edward.Luce@ft.com

[–]nurayn 21 points an hour ago

Most leftists that I've seen posting about it are supporting the protestors cause they're mostly working class people. They also see the disproportionate force being used as evidence of police brutality and the extent to which a capitalist government will defend its power.

Liberals may oppose these protestors but leftists do not. The left does not support Macron, who is a centrist at best, and more accurately a neoliberal.

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[–]northface39 19 points an hour ago

That's precisely why the media won't cover this. The protest is against neoliberalism, and there are people from the left and the right there. It would be as if Hillary were elected president and Trump and Bernie supporters joined forces to protest against her. It's the neoliberal's nightmare.

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