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Meanwhile, two authoritarian dictators carve up North Syria.

Unless the one person was a woman who doesn't take care of her appearance, then the five shitholeans would live.

There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options: Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person. Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do?

Thanks, but I think this should really be here with all the posts saying he'd never come and never sell his shares to Kroenke LD

Lets just call it The Laboratory

https://www.ft.com/content/396c358c-2d75-11ea-bc77-65e4aa615551

No reason you couldn't have reform with PR in a new democratically elected House of Lords but I think you need local members representing their constituencies in the lower house so preference voting is the way to go there I reckon. In my experience with an upper house thats PR you often get the minor parties/cross benchers in the balance of power so they often block bad legislation or get the needed amendments, not perfect but works pretty well.

I wouldn't go off the hysteria in the media, he just won a GE and will win the next one. Same situation as the UK, there's no opposition.

Here's an example from a recent by-election in the ousted Oz PM's seat, in FPTP the conservative would have won handily with 43% of total vote, but with no one on 50%+ preferences flowed to the independent who won a majority.

There has been no vote on PR watered down or otherwise, the vote was whether to introduce an Alternative Voting system where voter preferences are taken into account. In the proposed system voters rank their candidate numerically and where no candidate has been able to get 50% + 1vote in first preference votes then voters second preference votes come into play and so on until a candidate has an actual majority. Theres plenty of good arguments against PR but that people would vote against a system where a candidate is actually required to get 50% + 1 vote to win office is absurd in the extreme.

At least some Christian leaders are taking a principled stand though which I am sure is important for the sanity of thoughtful Christians who aren't blind to the immorality of Trump.

Surprised this hasn't been posted given the way Trump has been frothing at the mouth over it (he froths so much though), such an excellent piece from what I imagine is a very authoritative source? https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/christianity-today-trump-removal/603952/

(Sorry for the late response I have neglected to login for a while) She will almost certainly be President in the future, whip smart and an (ostensible) authenticity that seems to be lacking in politics at the moment. Just not true mate, the US congress is 22% BAME. African Amercians are proportionally represented. Yes, racism is a stain in most western countries but they are now demonstrably the least racist countries in the world due to their diversity. You have certainly failed to understand my argument, the Nazi's engaging in white identity politics was exactly the type of idpol I was referring to in the post you responded to, see below.

How do we feel about the bolded now? We haven't made the progress we have made using this kind of divisive language, you look at the great civil rights leaders and they used language that appealed to our sense of common humanity., this language is a backwards step in my opinion specially from a politician elected to represent a fairly diverse constituency. ps Regarding the italics, I really have to know what do you mean by "white ideas?"

She's not saying there should be more diversity in government, she's saying that a persons politics should be determined by their skin colour/sexuality/religion. Politics based on "group identity" is not something we should be aspiring to, we've plenty of example in history of how that has lead to less cohesive societies.

haha listen to the Brexitcast they are quote mining this propaganda from, this is just terrible and should be seen for what it is, even by people who get sexually aroused by Nigel Farage.

If you go back I actually said I was surprised that things like universal healthcare and anthropogenic global warming were considered leftwing or liberal issues in the states. I think you can make a good conservative argument for universal healthcare and not polluting the planet. I've come to see that in reality conservatives and progressives need each other, its a symbiotic relationship that is useful to the group in general, both sides over reach and you can see demonstrated in the world how problematic that has been when one side has had too much power and become authoritarian. The squad are great but I get the feeling a couple of them would over reach if they got the opportunity, AOC and Pressley in particular. I'm not a fan of this kind of identity politics

I have a horrible feeling Ghoat thinks America invented democracy and capitalism. @Ghoat, please advise.

Just as I expected, weak as piss.

Psychologists refer to this feeling as "cognitive dissonance"

Brexit hasn't happened yet John.

1) Your argument surely can't be so lacking in nuance that you wont accept that a number of leavers also wanted to stay in the single market and customs union, you don't have to point out something that has already been pointed out specifically by me many times like its a new argument three years and 82 pages down the track 2) Strawman, where did I state that? I said the Parliament still has to represent the interests of the entire population. 3) That video is a statement of the obvious, it's actually very prescient and honest and is not helping you.

Take your own advice, you're still just replying to strawmen arguments. Of course Parliament invoked article 50, that's how you get to the next stage of negotiating the withdrawal agreement, that is the only part with no grey area. Keep on ignoring the fact that the referendum was not pre-legislative and the Parliament still has an obligation to the other 50 million people who live in the UK and didn't vote for either a deal or no deal Brexit.