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Of course, in a loose sense 'libertarian' can be used for anyone non-authoritarian, anyone right-wing, both, or neither. In this sense, Bastiat was certainly a 'libertarian'. I don't know enough to know whether he was genuinely libertarian or merely neoliberal - although his rhetoric appears libert...

I just realized that, if the USA should somehow get a Democratic president again at some time in the near future, we might partially get an inverse version of the scenario from The Fire Shall Try.

Haven't you had them for a while? Like, say, Frédéric Bastiat? I'm not sure Bastiat counts as a libertarian. He was way too sensible for that :) Wasn't he in favour of letting every property owner decide for himself which government should govern his property, or something like that? Sounds like a ...

And the Irish ended the constitutional ban on blasphemy, too.

Where did you get this idea? Well, nobody's heard of her in France indeed. There have been earlier translations - though as far as I know, there hadn't been reprinted for years. Now things are a little different -- people have a greater exposure to American culture, and we even have a handful of li...

Interlude: the polls have just closed in the state legislative election in the German state of Hesse, and the exit-poll-based prognosis says: CDU 28 percent; SPD 20 percent; Greens 19.5 percent; AfD 12 percent; FDP 7.5 percent; The Left 6.5 percent You can now return to your regularly scheduled desc...

Yay, donuts!

Has anyone ever thought about contesting these super- and hyperinjunctions in the European Court of Human Rights? (In case anyone is wondering, no, that shouldn't be affected by Brexit, since the European Convention on Human Rights is separate from the EU (or at least it was the last time I checked)...

In the case of a new election, there might also be a hung Parliament. In which case, if the Lib Dems end up being good negotiators, there might... ... ... ...wait, did I just write the words "if the Lib Dems end up being good negotiators"? Ok, wait, there might be a small problem with what...

Vijay wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:48 am Never heard of "rough sleepers" in American English

Yeah, so is there any way in it to distinguish between people without a formal residence and people actually sleeping in the street?

Ah, thank you. I noticed it recently and wondered about it because it's so different compared to what I'm used to from American English. Hm, now I wonder how - and if - American English makes the distinction you talk about.

Not sure whether to post this here or in the Random Thread in Ephemera, but when all is said and all is done, it is a language-related question: When and why did some British media outlets start calling homeless people "rough sleepers"? It sounds like a rather callous euphemism to me.

Unfortunately, the markets' political instincts are a lot more solid than you're giving them credit for. Apparently, "Brazil’s most valuable exported product are soya beans followed by iron ores and concentrates, sugar, crude oil then poultry meat." http://www.worldstopexports.com/brazils...

Back to Bolsonaro, apparently, the Wall Street Journal endorses him: https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazilian-swamp-drainer-1539039700 Apparently Haddad is taking hints "from the Hugo Chavez playbook" Ah, if Venezuela didn't exist, we would have to invent it! Related to that, "the mark...

No Bolsonaro discussion yet? I mean, granted, it's yet another right wing fascistoid populist amongst a bit of a tidal wave of right wing populists, but Brazil is a pretty big deal. Hey, the longest post in this thread so far is about him! As for discussion, I guess the problem is coming up with ne...

chris_notts: One possible interpretation is that May was pro-EU until June 23th, 2016, and then, as they say, adjusted her sails.

Thank you!

A question about 21st century Chinese: I think I remember that, long ago, on the predecessor board, a native Chinese speaker explained that writing text messages on Chinese cellphones works in the way that you start to type in Pinyin, and then the phone suggests possible Chinese characters you migh...

A question about 21st century Chinese: I think I remember that, long ago, on the predecessor board, a native Chinese speaker explained that writing text messages on Chinese cellphones works in the way that you start to type in Pinyin, and then the phone suggests possible Chinese characters you might...

Ok, Salmoneus, you've succesfully let of steam. Now, feel free to proceed to providing some actual arguments.