modern politics is very bad at prioritising more than one thing at a time

@DEPChimp yea, some people are idiots, never going to get away from that.

@DEPChimp Just explain it to her like this: "If the nanny state decides it's more efficient to take your kids away from you, would you be in favor of that?" And if she answers "no" then just ask her why she thinks efficiency is a good reason to take any of people's freedoms away.

She'd have to bend over backwards twice to splain that

o boy, she thinks its a good idea that parents need a licence to have kids, coos what if the parents are pedos.

having more members doesn't even lead to faster conclusions, the immediacy of dictatorships is one of it's few advantages

the larger the government, usually, the less rapidly it's able to adapt to change

In some cases virtually or literally impossible

aye, like small companies can make run loops around large corporations. with there ability to be flexible in decisions and actions.

You just gave me an idea for why Google is so authoritarian

@leavethisbotnet Today at 10:38 AM
"What really highlighted this for me was the Catalonia situation. If they had a militia, they'd be independent by now."

What of Catalonia secession warrants force? What're their respective interests in pursuing such?

@Jeremy I am not familiar with the Catalonia situation, could you please explain what's going on?

Was it the break off from Spain?

Catalonia is richer

which was one reason

You also had some foreign interventionism going on.

I searched it and this came up:
people also ask:
Q: Is Catalonia a country
A: **SPAIN**

The point was, whether or not they can be independent, depends on whether or not they have the means to enforce that independence.

Indeed.

Whether it is within their best interests is another question, however.

well, that's really up to them to decide

If you're interested in Catalonia in particular then go ahead, otherwise this belongs in eu_politics

since the discussion is about relation between EU and member states

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-refineries-drone-attack.html#click=https://t.co/VNZNggTAHn

The place the houthis striked is so far from Yemen though

what the fuck is houthis

are they a division of Yemen's military or are they are terror group funded by a government like Qatar

They’re an ethnic group that was part of the coalition that overthrew Yemen’s last American backed strongman. Now they’re being opposed in Yemen by Saudi backed forces and some of the other gulf states.

right also why do the Saudi's think overthrowing the government in Yemen is even a slightly good idea, did no one learn anything from iraq

Because Iran is funding their puppets there

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/14/saudi-arabia-is-shutting-down-half-of-its-oil-production-after-drone-attack-wsj-says.html?__twitter_impression=true

@Anubis What is this channel for?

I don't see where did politics went to?

@yordanyordanov read the title bar

or the pin

It used to be in the xenoi section, now i come cack ocan't see it anymore?

ill you guys put politics back in the xenoi and where did the debates go?

Yemen was in a state of disarray for a long time. It's just that under Obama, Iran got cocky and started pushing harder in Yemen.

@Anubis I mean if I want to have a *theoretical* kind of discussion like anarchism vs fascism is there any place I can have it here?

But then Donald got into office and is best buddy with Saudis and they started pushing back.

Will this be the correct channel or should I just go to the long walls for everything?