On 6 May 2017, at 21:16, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Tomorrow's elections will answer a simple question: is Europe
fundamentally different from the US?
So...is it?
Cheers,
T
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The uncanny similarities between the tomorrow's French and the recent US
elections are being glaringly ignored by the usual stakeholders:
- the French candidates map to their US peers perfectly, except for the
genitals;
- the prognostications are undivided towards the banker's candidate;
-
Sebastian wrote:
"The only purpose of my little sketch of a larger German Sittengemälde
is to illustrate why I think that "hold your nose and vote" is a losing
strategy, and that it can be useful not to vote, if only to make sure
that certain parties that self-identify as center-left remain left
> And as for dear Sebastian's bitter but welcome comments on this thread:
> Yes, of course politics is political theatre. It always has been, as
> thinkers from Machiavelli to Guy Debord have always been quick to point
> out. Jan Söderqvist and I even predicted in "The Netocrats" in 2000
> that
When I was reading your conversation, I couldn't help but in my mind
begin to substitute the political parties with football clubs, and
their managers for the candidates. Is Real still alive, now that
Barca has taken a beating? Did we all underestimate Juventus? Will
Chelsea trash Arsenal? Are we
