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For a small percentage of the populace who follow Nigel Farage and are incapable of any reasoning beyond blaming people who look and talk differently from them for their own personal failures, it was. For the majority it was more about regaining some national autonomy from the EU, particularly...

Things like this "movement" are just the beginning of what the next four years will be like in the US. I almost miss the period from the 80s to the early 2000s when most Americans were content to just grow old eating microwave meals and watching TV.

Only about 2% separates the UK and Argentina. Does that make Boris the Alberto of Europe? "The South American country will leave behind 12.9% of its GDP this year, more than any other G20 country - although followed, not too far behind, by Spain and the United Kingdom - according to...

I see. But there are like a half dozen variants of Palermo (Hollywood, SOHO, etc.) which seems to be some kind of conspiracy from real estate agents and others interested in inflating property values. There are even parts of Chacarita (where I live) closer to Ave Justo that are starting to call...

I second that. I also would recommend Villa Crespo. Both a reasonable walk or a short cab ride to Palermo. I personally wouldn't live in Palermo even if money were no object. But it's great if you're looking for a US college town/spring break vibe with gaudy bars and drunk twenty-somethings...

I doubt the explanation is that CFK doesn't want you to have your favorite beer. Products like this usually go through a distributor (who supplies every retailer in a given location) and they ultimately to decide which products to carry or drop for any number of reasons. The pandemic has also...

What's the label for someone who is against abortion morally but in favor of legalization? I've never liked either extreme of the issue, even as a religious person. Pro-Life extremists tend to be very unhinged and hypocritical, that is, they usually have nothing to say about childhood poverty in...

I wasn't slandering her, I was describing her views accurately as well as orientation and funding source of the think thank she works for. How seriously would you take a cancer study funded by Phillip Morris? Everyone on the payroll at the Hoover Institution and their affiliates like Atlas (who...

I'm confused, so which identity is ultimately responsible for the payments?

No, there's a difference between the Keynesian model and Friedman model, and only one has actually been shown to grow economies. What most people call "socialism" these days is much closer to Keynesianism than it is actual socialism. The hybrid of free-markets with a welfare state is what has...

The author wrote basically the exact same article for the NR a couple of months ago, and like the first one, doesn't offer a solution, or even pretend to try. She's basocally regurgitating the same free-market orthodoxy that her Koch brothers-funded think tank repeats over and over.

How could he do all this and still manage to keep his shirt tucked in?

The US helped make China what it is today when it invited it into the WTO. The US business community is so tied up in China that there's no way to effectively confront them without also doing serious harm to the US economy. Unless the US is willing to imporse tariffs and sanctions on all...

Good luck to you. I left Chi-raq for good a couple years ago. I was in Oak Park last, but even there the excitement spilled over occasionally from the west side. Before that I had a condo near the Starbucks that got shot up in Uptown.

Typical Gold Coast prices. The Starbucks near Oak St. can be entertaining.

I can't believe a small pack of Lucky Strike is still only 85 ARS at my local kiosko (slightly up from 75 a year ago). If I had less self-control, I would have picked up the habit again after moving here.

But at least it's a "diverse and inclusive" cabinet of warmongers and corporate lackeys. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkjmvb/obamas-administration-sold-more-weapons-than-any-other-since-world-war-ii

I take it you voted for McCain-Palin in 2008, since by your logic it would have been sexist not to support Palin as the potential first ever female VP. I also assume you will vote for Ivanka in 2024 against Joe Biden. Because if you don't, it's only because you're afraid of strong women.

I personally doubt it. She's been one of the most "divisive" (a nice way to say "hated") figures in US politics since the 90s. In 2008 she lost the nominaiton to Obama, who was more or less a nobody at the time. In 2016, the DNC rigged the primary so that literally nobody ran against her. She...

They indeed have a kamikaze streak, but it's not from the Bernie-AOC, wing, it's from their leadership who just reappointed Nancy Pelosi as speaker for another two years. She has the second worst approval rating in the entire US government, worse than even Trump, and second only to Mitch.