Jonathan Scott's latest activity
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Jonathan Scott reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread Other Parliamentary Democracy - is the grass greener? with
Agree.
I call everybody who acts against their own interests a moron and an idiot. This is almost a definition of an idiot. I can prove this by... -
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Jonathan Scott reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread Other Parliamentary Democracy - is the grass greener? with
Informative.
Switzerland has an interesting model of democracy I haven't seen elsewhere. The government - the Federal Council (Bundesrat) - is... -
Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Other Parliamentary Democracy - is the grass greener?.Being informed is not the same as being coerced, and having different opinions is healthy, provided that they are based on reality...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Other Parliamentary Democracy - is the grass greener?.The form of "education" which is needed, regardless of politics, is simply to teach people to use critical thinking for themselves and...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Other Pseudo-oppositionist spoilers in autocracies.Google Lens provides a good explanation of the above, including translations.
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Enviroment Tobacco being phased out in the UK.There have been various suggestions that rather than banning smoking, the government should somehow get those who smoke to cover the...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Enviroment Tobacco being phased out in the UK.In the UK standard health care is essentially free, but the cost to the National Health Service of dealing with smoking-related disease...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Enviroment Tobacco being phased out in the UK.I can't speak for anyone else, but I've never smoked and I wouldn't mind if smoking were completely banned, and most vaping too. This...
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Jonathan Scott posted the thread Other Viktor Orbán concedes Hungarian election in Global & International Politics.Viktor Orbán concedes with Hungarian opposition on course for landslide election win https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt This...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Other Political polarization - causes, remedies, current state.Today's Washington Post has an article on the background to the increasing polarization in the US: "In 1990, a bipartisan Congress...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Other Political polarization - causes, remedies, current state.Back in the 1970s when I was first old enough to vote in the UK, the differences between parties seemed like a matter of personal choice...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Other This is Our President.I'm uncomfortably reminded of the story of King Croesus and the Delphic Oracle. He was told that if he launched an attack he would...
