Already without Biden: at the current rate of currency weakening and inflation in Turkey, the Greek nominal GDP will in 3-4 years be higher than Turkey.
Erdogan has to tack course or face removal by the Turkish people.
2020 US Election (Part 3)
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Already without Biden: at the current rate of currency weakening and inflation in Turkey, the Greek nominal GDP will in 3-4 years be higher than Turkey.
Erdogan has to tack course or face removal by the Turkish people.
If by multi-lateral you mean bringing the lapdog England along, ok
The Tories in the UK are already freaking out about Irish Joe Biden, and the Democrats hard stance on maintaining the Good Friday agreement. And I'm sure Boris Johnson saying this about Obama doesn't help matters.
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Stories have two things going for them.
1. UK Labour is a hot mess.
2. Brexit is popular with a large % of the population.
3. Long electoral cycle. Covid could be over and done with by next election.
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If that includes some years of austerity people will perhaps be reminded that income, wellfare and housing is more important for their lifes than having the best entertainer in Westminster.
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Who knows.
Problem is a lot of these countries went into Covid already high in debt. As I understand it once go go much past 100% debt to gdp ratio bad things start to happen.
The greek gdp is roughly half of what it was prior to Austerity... Greece used to be a top 24 world economy before Germany took over Europe.
1. So are the Tories.
2. But only a bare majority, most just wish it was done with
3. Hopefully so, but its put a spoke in Bojo's plans. Hard to level up the country when you're facing the worst recession for a century
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If both parties are a hot mess though that favors the incumbent government.
Not really because the incumbents are making a mess of things that directly affect people.
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Only if you consider empathy important. You do not seem to so why fight it? The others on your side of this debate do not seem to, so again why fight it? From the "welfare queen" to lgbtq to BLM. Conservatives seem absolutely unable to put themselves in another's shoes and this seems to dictate their positions on social topics. From welfare to justice to immigration their take is "I'm not helping these people, they are not part of my group". I'm jsut calling it as I see it.
I am not objective but it excellent to have the womanizing, tax dodging, uncaring, lying, cheating, ignorant, racist, corrupt, greedy, narcissistic, and self-dealing egotist off the world stage. He is a bad person who has done bad things. In supporting Trump you have been supporting all of his worst qualities. What does that say about you?
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I've never claimed any professional capacity. Nor have I ever mentioned "victim mentality". Victim isn't to blame for what happened. But they can, if they want, control how much will that affect how they treat other people that had nothing to do with what happened. It's not easy, but doable.
If you learn to expect the worst, you'll see the worst in every situation. And in the end, all you'll do is to just spread **** around, and it will eventually land back on your face. You can recognize it and pull yourself back, give people the benefit of doubt, and everyone will be better off.
This is one of those regions where I found Haidt's thesis interesting. Liberals will value empathy more, but because they have a harder time actually understanding the values that the conservatives hold, a lot gets lost in the conversation. Most 'good' people value empathy, but it's the creation of mechanisms to enact that empathy that people fight over.
Honestly, this insight, plus CFC helping me figure out how fiat economics works differently from 'real goods' economics has helped a lot. We tend to see the more vocal and evil faces of our political opponents, but figuring out why two groups can agree on a problem but not agree on a solution (especially when those solutions don't benefit from compromises) goes a long way.
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Any recent polls in UK?
I said you "lightly touched" on the phrase victim mentality. Which you did. I took pains to ensure I wasn't misquoting you. Similarly, I didn't say you claimed professional capacity. That was me trying to explain to you the reaction(s) you're getting, based on your providing advice. This forum alone has enough of that advice. Genuinely, it's worn thin. Repeatedly. That's not on you, that's just context.
However, you're still putting the burden on the victim to see the world differently. It doesn't work like that. Not when people don't help. You're falling into the common trap of assuming "the worst" or the "****" (guessing there) is equally-applicable in all scenarios. It isn't. Someone instigating is instigating. Someone responding to that? Maybe they don't have to. But it's not the same as purposefully instigating. It might look the same, but that's why we have forum rules for various things. Someone can cause a scene, and someone can be in that scene, but only one is (arguably) culpable.
Same goes for giving people the benefit of the doubt. That's you wanting the benefit of the doubt, which is why you need to provide something contextual. You were asked, and you took the question in bad faith. The poster in bad faith. How's that for benefit of the doubt?
If it helps, I've been where you are now. It helps to be open. You can be open without disclosing a lot about yourself. But you can't be by just asking questions and giving very generic advice . . . while refusing to actually open up to the questions asked of you.
Latest puts Labour 5% ahead of the Tories. Bojo is making a mess of everything.
How reliable is this? I mean it sounds rather ridiculous.
The kind of poll which will never be checked anyway, so at least they went with 5% instead of something more flamboyant.
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Lol yeah good news for Labour. Maybe not such a hot mess.
Can we call this the "Trump effect". Your leaders are so rubbish you win election by existing?
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@Gorbles I'm surprised you didn't sternly and firmly chasten @Cloud_Strife for putting a bunch of posters into a "box," with a single statement, like she did here.
You, know, the same criticism for putting posters into generic "boxes," to attack you criticized me for last night. Where are your principals, @Gorbles?
You, know, the same criticism for putting posters into generic "boxes," to attack you criticized me for last night. Where are your principals, @Gorbles?
Perhaps. Starmer seems to be taking the Biden approach.
Boring, competent, middle-of-the-road.
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