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you're boxing with shadows.

I don't think that; it's quite easy to teach critical thinking skills, media literacy skills, basics of anthropology and evolution, and the idiosyncrasy of the scientific method and naturalism compared to other modes of thinking. Btw I'm not saying like people who vote for Harris are like this...

You are right, our difference is semantic; by education I do not mean diplomas and graduation from a university. A good high-school education (or even a middle-school one; all you need is one good teacher) which instills naturalism to replace any magical thinking that a person might have will...

populism and demagoguery of any kind is always popular with lower-educated and badly-educated people as they have magical thinking about resolving of problems which leads to them always looking for heroes which can go solve their problems as they put their brains on flow. so obviously in a...

it may be a temporary backlash; normal people are more malleable than we assume. Trump came to the scene by fighting every other republican in the primaries; the image of him being against the establishment and deep state has been cultivated by a lot of litigation and media onslaught against him...

:ROFLMAO: good shit.

Yeah I think this is mostly astute:

I think it will pose opportunities to drive wedges between different actors. I think there will be a push towards independent foreign policy from U.S. in many of these countries and there's a chance they go their own way on individual issues.

Also with Trump being very pro-fracking, and the resolving of Ukraine war faster than it would under Harris, price of oil and gas will plummet, which will help our current account deficit massively.

I should've gone with the "dem vote = polling average minus 3-4%" formula once again but I foolishly thought the polls should have corrected the biases they have in sampling. Statistics is the bane of the sciences. The thing I learn from this mistake is that the influence of social media on...

That requires knowing the ins and outs of U.S. political system and an understanding of how you can influence it with veteran diplomats and a well-researched strategy. Instead we have people who think Capitol Hill is the most consistent and rational individual human being in the entire history...

interesting:

I've bet on it being close and creating chaos; bearish on markets.

I'd put the chances at 65-35 for Harris, 8/15.

If any of these political forces were serious about any of these issues, there'd be a strategy to infiltrate hdp, create factions inside, break it apart, make its supporters distrust its members, make it controlled oppo, etc.; the fact that during akp rule, not only none of this has happened...

That's only natural; the bigger portion of any blame which might exist falls on Ukrainian politicians, intelligentsia and public figures who could not (or didn't want to, because of self-interest) read the situation and help the populace adopt the expedient attitudes (helping them avoid...

yeah I know you think that before you tell me: you watch Erlik, Veryansın and that whole crowd. I am quite familiar with the landscape of Turkish politics.

In the generation of current politicians politics was and is conducted with simplistic American-style short sentences; now with the new and improved generation we're getting a politics conducted with single words; the next generation will probably do it with grunts and growls.