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SuperJail Warden wrote:

As for your author

http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Peace-Strugg … 0812922050
As political and economic forces push the three superpowers--the United States, Germany and Japan--further apart, the Cold War could give way to a very "cold peace." That is the prognosis of Garten, who held senior White House and State Department posts under Nixon, Ford and Carter and is now an investment banker, in an important, clear-eyed book for anyone struggling to come to grips with the changing world order. Drawing on his broad experience, he argues that many disputes among the "Big Three" are rooted in the different kinds of capitalism the three countries practice. Relations among the Big Three, he predicts, may deteriorate through squabbles over regional trade blocs, aid to the former Soviet Union and the role of the U.N. and the World Bank. Garten paints a sobering picture of the "German Empire" 's dominant role within the European Community and of Japan's tightening rein over its East Asian superbloc.[ Calling for collective Big Three leadership to solve mutual problems, he predicts that America in the '90s will measure itself against what Japan and Germany are becoming.
Can you ask him how he feels about fucking that prediction up?
germany has pirouetted and pretty much scored a victory as the de facto leader of europe through banking shenanigans. lending bad credit, the same old depressing picture. so he's not altogether wrong on that one. japan dropping off after their managerial/tech boom – yeah, okay. not sure anyone saw that coming. i'm not sure how much he'll appreciate me shitting on his old books though, haha. it's not like i even care. macro-economics always involves an element of prognosticating, no?

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SuperJail Warden
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uziq wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

As for your author

http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Peace-Strugg … 0812922050
As political and economic forces push the three superpowers--the United States, Germany and Japan--further apart, the Cold War could give way to a very "cold peace." That is the prognosis of Garten, who held senior White House and State Department posts under Nixon, Ford and Carter and is now an investment banker, in an important, clear-eyed book for anyone struggling to come to grips with the changing world order. Drawing on his broad experience, he argues that many disputes among the "Big Three" are rooted in the different kinds of capitalism the three countries practice. Relations among the Big Three, he predicts, may deteriorate through squabbles over regional trade blocs, aid to the former Soviet Union and the role of the U.N. and the World Bank. Garten paints a sobering picture of the "German Empire" 's dominant role within the European Community and of Japan's tightening rein over its East Asian superbloc.[ Calling for collective Big Three leadership to solve mutual problems, he predicts that America in the '90s will measure itself against what Japan and Germany are becoming.
Can you ask him how he feels about fucking that prediction up?
germany has pirouetted and pretty much scored a victory as the de facto leader of europe through banking shenanigans. lending bad credit, the same old depressing picture. so he's not altogether wrong on that one. japan dropping off after their managerial/tech boom – yeah, okay. not sure anyone saw that coming. i'm not sure how much he'll appreciate me shitting on his old books though, haha. it's not like i even care. macro-economics always involves an element of prognosticating, no?
I know I just found that funny. Most books about contemporary and future politics are usually wrong. I read a bit of a book published in 2012 or 2013 about how the NATO system was bound for failure because of a lack of outside threat due to global trade yadda yadda. And I have a book about the history of iraq published by Cambridge in 2010 that ended with the author being afraid of Iraq slipping back in authoritarianism and aggressive relations with its neighbors in order to satisfy national aspirations. A+ calls there. lol


Political and international economics was really my least favorite and interesting part of my political science education though. So boring .
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Keeps getting better and better. I remember recently hearing some Trump supporters lauding his veterans' fundraiser as "good politics" and "a nice thing to do." Later: Trump’s Webpage Raising Money ‘For Vets’ Sends Funds to Trump’s Foundation. That and all the other steaming shits he took on vets in the past should wrap that praise up.

Even if Trump wanted to be honest about it, good luck finding any takers.

pirana6 wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

zeek wrote:

stop valorising his way of address as if he's a breath of fresh air. his shit stinks.
That's just it, it IS a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately his shit DOES stink.
No, it isn't. Because among other reasons, yes, it does.

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SuperJail Warden
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I can't wait for the Trump SS to take newbie
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unnamednewbie13
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Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure they'll be too busy:

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SuperJail Warden
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Trump would be awful for a president. If I had to pick a republican though I would pick Trump. I rather Trump burn the country to the ground than  live 4-8 years under any mainstream republican president. Same outcome just quicker.
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That's stupid.
SuperJail Warden
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Do you really think Cruz and a republican majority congress will be much worse than Trump? I don't.
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

If I had to pick a republican
Beauty part is you don't have to pick a Republican.
pirana6
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Trump came in 2nd in Iowa. Can everyone relax a bit. He also came in 2nd to the candidate de jour
Ty
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10% left to count for the Dems, only .2% in it. Fun.

Edit: What is with this deciding caucus votes with coin tosses? Fuck's sake America.
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How can you elect someone with only 28% of the votes?

This is not deciding what is for dinner but electing the most powerful person in the world. America your electoral process is broken.
pirana6
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DrunkFace wrote:

How can you elect someone with only 28% of the votes?

This is not deciding what is for dinner but electing the most powerful person in the world. America your electoral process is broken.
You may not be wrong but I think you have a misunderstanding of how primaries work
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pirana6 wrote:

DrunkFace wrote:

How can you elect someone with only 28% of the votes?

This is not deciding what is for dinner but electing the most powerful person in the world. America your electoral process is broken.
You may not be wrong but I think you have a misunderstanding of how primaries work
I think he's just saying how stupid first past the post is.
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DrunkFace wrote:

How can you elect someone with only 28% of the votes?

This is not deciding what is for dinner but electing the most powerful person in the world. America your electoral process is broken.
If there are more than two candidates then its unlikely anyone will get a clear majority.

Australian governments rarely get a clear majority from the raw vote.
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Iowa caucus results

Republican vote, 99% reported:
◾Ted Cruz: 28%, eight delegates
◾Donald Trump: 24%, seven delegates
◾Marco Rubio: 23%, seven delegates
◾Ben Carson: 9%, three delegates
◾Rand Paul, Jeb Bush: one delegate each. Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich and Rick Santorum: no delegates

Democratic vote, 99% reported:
◾Hillary Clinton: 50%, 22 delegates
◾Bernie Sanders 50%, 21 delegates
◾Martin O'Malley, 1%, no delegates
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DrunkFace wrote:

How can you elect someone with only 28% of the votes?

This is not deciding what is for dinner but electing the most powerful person in the world. America your electoral process is broken.
These are primaries. People are voting within the Democratic and Republican parties for who will represent their party in the November national election. Some states are winner-take-all, some are proportional like Iowa.

Yes, it makes presidential campaigns absurdly long.
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SuperJail Warden
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We should just switch to a parliament.
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Hi, just dropping in to state a casually informed yet widely accepted opinion that nothing will change regardless of who wins come general election time. The sad truth of western democracy is that it doesn't work properly. Unless you call siphoning currency all the way up to the upper echelon "working", in which case, everything is going as intended.
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

We should just switch to a parliament.
#MakeAmericaLessUnrepresentativeAgain #hashtagneedswork
uziq
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d4rkph03n1x wrote:

Hi, just dropping in to state a casually informed yet widely accepted opinion that nothing will change regardless of who wins come general election time. The sad truth of western democracy is that it doesn't work properly. Unless you call siphoning currency all the way up to the upper echelon "working", in which case, everything is going as intended.
not every western democracy is determined by lobbyists and financial transactions.
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The country needs to be conquered and have its political system rebuilt by some trustworthy outsiders like we did to Japan and Germany.
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DrunkFace
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WTF is with the democrats caucus thing. How fucked up can you make a voting system?
pirana6
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I'm confused, is it that the republican caucus has their shit together?

Or caucuses in general?
Ty
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All pretty meaningless though isn't it? I'm pretty sure you do it just so once every four years Iowa gets to feel important. Trump will likely do better in New Hampshire as will Sanders. Both are still long shots for the main prize.
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