Recent content by Cato the Elder

The inherent volatility of the market makes attempting to pinpoint certain groups of people as "unproductive" solely on their choice of major unbelievably naive, in my opinion. The difference in both time and in space in regards to what jobs are the most required is immense. My father was told...

This last part makes no sense at all. Firstly, Iran in no way thinks it can beat the United States in any kind of war, they're not delusional. And even in the extremely unlikely case that Iran were to attack the United States, any potential president, even if that person were to be Bernie...

In combination with the avatar and signature, this is more amusing than it should be. 6:05 PM

Give Romney Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Florida, and he gets 301 electoral votes. This is the only situation wherein I could see Romney doing this; I would find it very surprising if he took Pennsylvania or Michigan. This situation is...

Also, Romney winning Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Florida is a bit optimistic, don't you think? I could see hypotheses wherein he wins about half of these states, but not all of them. The only swing state you have going Obama is Colorado, which is unrealistic. But...

If he's that awful then why does he still have an about 70% chance of winning the election, according to Fivethirtyeight? Unless of course, all pollsters that don't confirm your opinion are biased.

To be honest I'd really like it if the accusations made against Obama in these trailers were true. If he actually had an anti-colonialist agenda to set right the wrongs done against the Third World, the world as a whole would improve significantly. It seems as if Obama's not all that different...

I just did the kiescompas test and I came out at pretty much the center of the top-left quadrant. Closest to SP, who I would probably vote for if I were Dutch. By the way, I've been doing some calculations, and I'm wondering, what coalitions are even possible? Any coalition I can find that is...

To what extent is it likely that the entire weed pass system will be overturned? I've heard it's caused a lot of hullabaloo with criminality and the like in the south of the Netherlands, so I'm wondering how much support there still is for the program, and whether it's a big deal at all?

Less talk than say 2 years ago, and the talk that's there is recognized as being such, just talk, and no more. Many N-VA and Vlaams Belang voters do so out of protest; the 3 traditional parties (socialist, liberal, and Christian democrat) and the greens are sometimes seen as being too soft on...

Local (municipal + provincial) elections in Belgium are coming up in October. In Flanders, the moderate Flemish nationalist party (N-VA) is expected to make gains and the extremist Flemish Nationalist Party (Vlaams Belang) is expected to lose votes, but for the rest pretty much anything is up...

How I interpret it is kind of like the analogy of how machismo and excessive girlyness correspond to being a heterosexual male or female. There's people who are of a certain sexual orientation, and there are those that flaunt it, and they exist on all sides of the sexual spectrum. This is not...

Yeah, although they appear to be considering to also take in the Democratic Left for greater stability and legitimacy. How this is going to play out is going to be very interesting. And very depressing. Economic colonization, ho!

The ironic thing is that young Europeans are having as much or more difficulty finding jobs themselves. The entire economical system of Europe is entrenched and rusting, and I would be sincerely surprised if we had universal underemployment in 10-20 years' time. I voted both will get screwed...

Ahmadiyya are not considered Muslims by some other sects of Islam, however. Sufism is another interesting one to look up; because of its esoteric nature it tends to be inclined towards the peaceful although there has been violence amongst them I believe. The Alevis are also interesting and worth...