I agree. But the slump (if it’s coming) seems to me to be based on different reasons in each country:
- the US is very much depending on services and services and imports go down when the president calls out trade wars without really knowing what he’s doing. Dow Jones doesn’t mean shit, it’ll be going down like a rock…

Exactly. It seems to me that better-off America just closes his eyes and doesn’t want to see what’s going on in jails (and not just there). Because actually wanting to see would mean that one would have to face the fact that this is part of a public infrastructure and that’s been underfunded and rotten because “no…

Why indeed? Because of the undisguised glee about Epstein dying (apart from perhaps sheltering his accomplices). Suffered? Maybe you could suggest torture or at least rape for “pedophiles” (whatever that is for you)?

There are a range of acceptable responses to Jeffrey Epstein’s death, such as grief for his victims and the justice they’ll now never receive and rage at a system that somehow allowed this to happen among them.

Good observation. It really doesn’t matter what he believes, as long as he behaves. But it could be important sometime when Trump is more isolated from his right wing surroundings. Problem is, only then we will see, if what you say is true.
As for this blog: throwing suspicion on Biden (why didn’t he answer? He must be…

Currently the Sané transfer is not closed as far as I know. Sané is injured and I guess Bayern wants to renegotiate. While they still like to have all German national team players they probably won’t do it at any price.

I’m having images in my head of Trump driving a golf cart towards a burning hole after having boasted about his “perfect donuts” he wanted to do. And the Secret Service agents running along “Break, Mr. President, no the other breaks!”.

Fitness is about pain—body wracked with pain—mind overtaken by pain—lungs bursting in pain—muscles seizing in pain—soul melting in pain—vision clouding with pain—world melding with pain, until you live in pain world.

I wouldn’t say that access to weapons motivated the crime, this was the opportunity (it goes without saying that this easy access has to be removed, especially for someone that has already shown signs of aggression). But mass shooters usually have a fascination with guns as their intended means to live out their…

“Unclear motive” is something that’s always accompanying news about shooters like the one in Dayton. But I guess in many cases there is no motive as such. As far as I heard that guy was threatening death to each and everyone, was obsessed about it, didn’t have a special agenda. That would fit with many of the…

The discussion initially was about a “racial divide”, something that, to me needs a sizeable racial minority (we could certainly argue about the exact size). One immigrant from Africa in Russia does not make a racial divide.
Secondly I would define “racism” as a dogma/belief system based on the belief that a) there…

Well, “historically white” would mean no racial divide? Please think back to 1933.
As I’ve said, there is always xenophobia, but to me, this is different from a racial divide. For that you need a sizeable minority for starters, not some right wing nuts who always will find a scapegoat (and if they don’t, they’ll make…

I know, I’ve been to Paris. I meant it in the way that the Muslim population in France is around 8%? Not as high as the black and Latin community in the US. 

In Germany unequal income (risk of poverty) is tied to single (female) households. No black minority here.

That’s what I meant? An unclear defintion of “Antifa” can be enough to curtail civil rights.

Here is an article on the statistics and how to really count them.

Regarding that slogan, the “no class” thing to me is most galling. Middle class “identity” politics denying that there is an problem with unequal income. Racism, as all other forms of codified submission of minorities, is based on the position in society, which is based on income. I will admit that there will always…

Poland or Hungary, also Italy. I would even argue that France or Germany have no sizeable minorities, not as big as in the US. 

“Evil”, “hate”? Sounds biblical, but of course isn’t. Just look at Europe (or Japan, Australia, whatever) - stricter gun control, less dead. The correlation is clear. Or do you think, that people in Europe do not “hate”? I assure you they do. And violence happens all the time. Just not with assault guns.

It is a global issue, one manifesting itself in events like Brexit, the election of far-right xenophobes (including Trump) across the Western world.