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If Labour was an American party, they’d be called “Brocialists” and badgered with stupid accusations of racism all the way to defeat. But England is a good example of why the Democrats could stand to move left, and why that’s not a bad thing for people of color. Things like prison and police reform and immigrant…

The Tories are forming a minority government with the backing of Northern Ireland’s DUP. This is not a good development. The DUP are the closest thing the UK has to the bible thumping wing of the Republican Party - antiabortion, homophobic, climate change denying fossils who have been keeping NI in the dark ages…

Sheesh, the standard of ‘journalism’ on this site is getting worse and worse.

Killer tortoises, when they are angered it’s best to run, or at least a brisk walk

we’ve gone from being an leader on climate action

And did it matter in the end? No. Le Pen still got steamrolled, and the side of good won out.

The Left did not back Le Pen. The Insoumis party/rassemblement voted to endorse a vote blanc, because they know Macron is going to be a disaster who will end up as popular as Hollande, and they don’t want to be tarred in the future elections as Macronists.

Chapter 1: an anointed Hillary Clinton lost in 2008 to the most inexperienced and unlikeliest president ever elected.

I disagree with this. US citizens (and Donald Trump) tend to vastly overestimate the amount of influence that China has over North Korea. China has been unhappy with the Kim regime for quite some time and has spent about the past two decades imploring North Korean leadership to follow their lead in having a…

Unlike most women entering politics, Le Pen didn’t have to work twice as hard to be seen as half as legitimate because her last name meant she deserved to be there.

Wow. Wow. I mean, I hate MLP, but this is...not a good article.

While I don’t entirely buy into the idea of a worldwide liberal bubble that got Trump elected, I’ve seen a lot of the same kind of thing you’re describing, and I do think it shows a certain sphere of leftists who are largely divorced from reality. Their political beliefs are almost entirely based on abstract concepts…

TL:DR- Hates socialism

Your comment is so ignorant it warrants a lengthy response in history lessons, and an analysis of what happened in Venezuela and why.

If I’m going to be brutally killed, I’d rather be sleeping!

How about fight ISIS by not perpetuating US imperialist policy that has served as the justification for Islamic terrorists for decades? Rather than trading all our civil rights here, as people seem willing to do, to maybe prevent a few dozen deaths from terror attacks, while enriching defense contractors? Theres no…

Wait, I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.

Very much this. I despise Assad for the totalitarian crook he is but he would not put his ongoing success in the civil war into jeopardy by using WMDs. The rebels were caught lying about a gas attack before and the only way for them to turn the tide of war is to drag the USA into it. I am not saying that this is a…