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Re: No no deal
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2019, 07:33:00 AM »
I doubt they care, and hope isn't something they do. They are the ultimate in rationality.

I don't have a vote in it. Not that I'm unaware of the history - my PhD-level work was in comparative governments. I simply have no say, so I don't "care" in the sense that there's not a damned thing I can do about anything that happens in the UK. Or, realistically, anywhere. Not enough money or rich/famous friends to have any clout. So while I'll be watching it all go down like the Titanic, I'm not emotionally invested.

So... wages will be kept low here after Brexit, because money is lining the pockets of the bosses. Same old story, only then they won't have the EU bosses  to put up as the straw men. I'm sure they'll come up with something else to deflect blame, though. Having just listened to the debating in the Commons (or, the BBC's condensed version of said) I have no doubts about that.  ::)

Good stuff here.

I think we are dealing now with very large, meta/macro level shifts. For instance, western economic hegemony cannot continue forever.

Trump, Brexit - these things are not really about walls and the shape of bananas, more so about how people feel about things. "The nation is going to hell in a handcart!"

Climate change has sunk me I think. If we are to do anything about it, it will require large, top down shifts in structures, not so much individuals choosing eco friendly beans. But climate change has fallen completly off the agenda now.
I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair. - AOC


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Re: No no deal
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2019, 09:53:20 AM »
Climate change has sunk me I think. If we are to do anything about it, it will require large, top down shifts in structures, not so much individuals choosing eco friendly beans. But climate change has fallen completly off the agenda now.

A lot of stuff has. Smoke and mirrors, my friend.  :)


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