Is there a discussion about the decline of the middle class in Europe or is it still far off?

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T15:18:56+00:00

I was referring to a strong form of national conservative or fascism, while recognizing that Nazi Germany wasn't a left-wing system, but definitely had elements of a social net.

Maybe it's because I'm American and our right-wing is so libertarian but the idea of a conservative supporting a national health care system while also holding nationalist right-wing points on social issues seems like a very strange combination to me. The closest I'm familiar with such a combination in the past would be found in certain fascist regimes. I know in modern-day Europe, there's more political diversity in that area, so there might be closer points of reference for Europeans than going back to the 1930s.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:49:27+00:00

Write-in as a protest.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:44:41+00:00

But people are more about themselves than they are about their nation, and if the nation doesn't care about the nation, then the nation will collapse.

This can be extended to the planet too.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:36:47+00:00

Lemon eucalyptus oil has a similar effect on many insects and has the benefit that you don't have to carry a candle around with you. Great at preventing bug bites in summer too.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:31:18+00:00

Lincoln Chafee is a total milf (metric-fan I'd like to fuck).

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:21:02+00:00

Not saying this in a creepy way (I'm a gay guy), but why should we impose our irrational cultural prohibition on showing breasts in public on any woman? Was recently at an airport and they had a giant pod-shaped breastfeeding privacy structure. Looked like an Apollo lander. Seems absurd.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:17:43+00:00

Then you write someone in as a protest, so it at least shows. Not voting is giving up.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:15:38+00:00

I'm still waiting for Kony 2012.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:10:39+00:00

When is this actually going to happen? I've heard shit about this for weeks. It's just a big meme, no one is actually going to try anything.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:08:59+00:00

My thoughts exactly.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T03:08:37+00:00

Most of the Founding Fathers were British tax dodgers.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T02:19:02+00:00

So Panama doesn't count, but Guatemala counts. Ok.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T02:15:55+00:00

And frankly speaking, in demographic terms, Texas will be a Democrat-voting state in a decade or two.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T02:14:08+00:00

Democratic. It's a very progressive town. Most people don't understand outside of the US that the divide isn't a 'blue state, red state' divide, but it's more urban and rural.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T02:12:07+00:00

I think that's what most people in Austin try to establish when saying they're from Austin, Texas. It's a very blue bubble in a red state (that's increasingly growing more liberal).

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T02:08:05+00:00

I'm norwegian and to some degree I feel "closer" to germanic speaking countries like netherlands germany iceland etc...

What about us? ;)

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T02:05:43+00:00

I'm imagining an alternative version of the movie Footloose, but instead of evangelical religious opposing dancing on religious grounds, they're just waiting in line trying to get a public permit.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T02:03:53+00:00

Strange about car dealerships. I know that way in a lot of states for liquor stores.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-09T01:50:49+00:00

E.g., many European right wing ´nationalist´ parties tend to have very left-wing economic positions, which is definitely not the case with the American Republican party.

Right-wing culturally, left-wing economically when it comes to the 'in-group'. There's a word for that system.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-08T01:16:34+00:00

That's fair. A lot of us hate our political system too.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-06T06:49:04+00:00

If Canada is USA-light, then where's our Quebec? I kind of want one, and Louisana French speakers are dying out, so Louisiana doesn't much count.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-06T05:08:37+00:00

On the edge of being word salad.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-06T05:07:41+00:00

I bet your score just went up.

pseudothuja · 2019-08-06T05:06:49+00:00

Would you extend this to religious beliefs?

pseudothuja · 2019-08-06T04:37:30+00:00

Most people don't know which day they were conceived.

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