The post westphalian world is an anarchic society where all the actors are nation states. Bar a few exceptions that prove the rule: like the vatican. What they compete for is power. Which is a zero sum game. Power might be fungible.
This is fact.
@Sean_Walsh_1967 I was warned about cultural relativism when doing a course in social anthropology at St Andrews.
You can be hyper objective and detach yourself whilst still knowing that what you are observing is backward.
@RhubbaComedy Reform are the outsiders. It’s going to be a coalition of independent thinking big hitters. Party discipline is what got us into this mess.
I worked for Brown’s Labour Party and my sister is still in the cult.
@RhubbaComedy@SimonDanczuk Maybe you have to live where I live, your family reputation goes a long way. Knowing that disrespecting me will cause you trouble is part of it
@dearaunty@GoodwinMJ I’m half american so voter fraud has been in the spotlight even since GW. Fraud has been exposed in towwe hamelts, bradford, and weirdly, peterborough.
To restore trust. Postal voting has to stop for all except troops overseas and the like.
Fat Chance Though
@WildmanWV@remigrado Yeah. i know. What is striking is how he is beloved of both the right and the left of Spain. We kinda miss the old stereotype of the Southern Latifundia Sañorito. Which he was. His mariconazo was amusing to the right aristocracy… up until it wasn’t. Thar probably got him killed
@LozzaFox Brits, even really smart ones, like my Dad, have no idea about the fiscal and demographic catastrophe britain is spiraling into. When you bring it up, there’s a nihilism strain running through their responses. It’s like Brits are sleepwalking into their own doom!
@remigrado Actually I was supposed to play a part in a boda de sangre theater adaptation. But I got suspended from school for pot so they gave my part away. My best friend played la madre and won an award
@QuetzalThoughts I had a bad car crash when I was a junior in high school in the USA. It ended my 2nd varsity soccer season. 3 years of physio and chiropractors for my back.
Now I am strong as an ox. Back pain was long ago
@QuetzalThoughts I studied UN peacekeeping as part of my GeoPolitics degree at University. I read a lot about Rwanda.
I think I have purposefully forgotten the more grisly bits as it turned my stomach at the time