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As much as storming private property isn’t something I approve of…Blackrock really shouldn’t have got ideas above its station and started meddling in the affairs of nations.

Well, not quite. Greek City States seemed to manage for the most part, and they were quite a bit bigger than villages. Indeed, some of them had populations of more than a hundred thousand. Then again, they arranged their systems alongside the "tribes", which are almost super villages/towns that...

You’d be surprised by just how much those words describe Singaporean policy. A pragmatic authoritarianism might not be nice but it seems to do a good job of ruling.

As I understand it, this is Singapore’s model. Each generation pays its own way.

Unpopular idea: I think if one can avoid it, don't retire. You don't have to do full time or anything, but it helps keep the brain ticking and gives you something to do alongside a source of socialization and income. You don't have to feel like a miserable, dependent, invalid.

Not to mention Le Pen's party just increased their seat count eleven fold. The French Centre is fucked. It's messy. As Arlos pointed out, there are two claimant factions: the Orleanists and the Legitimists. If I understand it correctly, the latter are Bourbon supporters that lean towards a...

No disrespect intended, but that's not true. The French political system has been in chaotic flux from 1789 onward, with only a few islands of stability under the soldier Emperors of the Bonapartes. Another Republic is only ever one riot turning nasty away. We are getting the 6th Republic...

Oh ho ho, that is the arrogance of the 21st century bleeding through. Like it or not, monarchy has been the default method of governance for human beings since Sumer and Akkad, if not (likely) earlier. We could actually be a weird "blip" as far as our descendants are concerned.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I think a monarchy would actually be better than that. If anything a strong, old institution such as a monarchy would be of tremendous benefit to a tumultuous country like France.

What's your reckoning on how things will go? I know the Frogs have little patience for their governments.

Well, the 5th Republic had a good run. Lasted roughly as long as the 3rd.

Just like everywhere else in the western world, this was mishandled from beginning to end.

M-Macron, holy shit this isn't how you talk the anti-vaxxers down. This will actually have the opposite effect.

Jewish Conspiracy theories are absurd and dangerous, but lefty Jews do absolutely nothing to help themselves.