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immi101: there are 80million Germans. And everybody feels a little different about it ;)
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timppu: Yeah, but I meant more in the sense like how you rate your country's politics and politicians to those in other countries? Like how corrupted, opportunistic, dumb, weasel etc. they are? I've always thought Germany is one of those countries with less shithead politicians, but how would I know anyway.
i don't think you can fit all German politicians under one umbrella and compare them to their finnish counterparts.
(and I don't even know any finnish politician)
There certainly are competent and smart people among them. Smarter than elsewhere? Who knows ...
But we have our fair share of corruption (like everybody else I presume).
And we certainly have our share of, let's say "less able" politicians. And with that also a number of stupid, nonsensical laws or decisions being made.
So when somebody complains about having some dumb politicians in India, my first reactions is gonna be: "I know that feeling" :)
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Gilozard: ...In the US, no one can stop anyone from running for office. We always start out with a field of crazies and it gets winnowed down. Trump has run for several positions but it never goes anywhere.

The only change this time is that the media is giving him, and all the nutjobs, more air time than usual.
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Trilarion: Not only the media. For example while Donald Trump has the right to run for office he is not entitled to make it under the banner of the GOP. He could run as an independent after being excluded from the GOP for having incompatible views. Or the law prosecutors could accuse him of hate speech and discrimination (for example when asking for marking people of a certain faith) and sentence him. Or people instead of enjoying the show could publicly express their distaste for him and put more pressure on the media and their local GOP representatives to end it at least now. WIthout it it seems like he has at least some support in the GOP and among the voters and given his dangerous ideas I think this impression really should be avoided.

I wouldn't mind if he would be a lonely runner - but he runs for the grand old party which holds the Senate and the House and may as well get the next presidency and had it in the past more often than not. This makes a really bad impression. I guess politics and entertainment do not go that well together than one usually thinks.
American parties can't exclude people like that until the primary. That's when the party leadership gets together and makes the judgement call on who to send to the electoral collage contest. Everything up until the primary is pre-show and not worth much. Some of party leadership is bound by the popular primary vote, some of them aren't, depending on the state.

It's not really possible to exclude candidates for 'incompatible views', and if party leadership even tried to do that everyone would be upset about it. The most party leadership can do at this point is not fundraise for candidates they don't like. Trump is connected enough with the entertainment industry that money is not a problem, so party leadership really has no hold on him. He just has to be defeated in the primary, i.e. not selected as the party candidate.

Trump is a Republican party member, so he's running in the Republican primary. He'd need to personally declare himself an independent to avoid that, and he'll never do it.

TL;DR American parties are very different from European parties. Party leadership doesn't and can't exert control like European parties can afaict. The only unusual feature of this election cycle is that the media decided to get into the election cycle way ahead of their usual start time, so the pre-primary group of candidates is being treated like it means anything. No one is running with the official endorsement of either party yet - that only happens after the primary.
Post edited December 10, 2015 by Gilozard
Easily manipulable people, almost half the country, if not many more, fell for Hugo Chavez socialist reform, I can even count a few dumb idiots within my own family.

It has been 16 years now and the only thing we got from this "revolucion" is worst crime rates in our whole history, scarcity of food and medical supplies, worst inflation of the world and lots and lots corruption.

Good thing my family (atleast most of it) knew who this man was, a traitor who should've been taken out and shot when he was captured.
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immi101: there are 80million Germans. And everybody feels a little different about it ;)
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timppu: Yeah, but I meant more in the sense like how you rate your country's politics and politicians to those in other countries? Like how corrupted, opportunistic, dumb, weasel etc. they are? I've always thought Germany is one of those countries with less shithead politicians, but how would I know anyway.
You can't imagine the amount of corruption in German politics, it may not be as bad as in Italy, but I'd say it's in the European top 5 for sure.
1) Dumbass lobotomised zombies everywhere.
2) White collar jobs pay less than $1000 .
3) Ruled by a right wing government with a majority of the population being religious fanatics and raving lunatics.
4) Women in general; feel entitled to be treated like princesses despite being butt fucking ugly (Not all of them are like that). An unfortunate consequence of social programming, bollywood nonsense and a generation of men being raised by women. Conversely, I found the women and people in general friendlier as well as easier to converse with in Europe.
5) Poverty, Unemployment, a culture of sycopancy and mindless religious fanatism.
6) Not a country - a massive chaos theory experiment.
7) Too populated, filthy and general public apathy.
Post edited December 10, 2015 by Lionel212008
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HunchBluntley: I really can't believe you!
You misspelled "dago". : (
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tinyE: No I didn't! :D

Looks like it can be spelled either way.
But you left out paddies, micks and wops. :D
Canadian Bacon is nothing but traitor bacon.

I refuse to recognize this as anythnig but the bastard form of the best treat ever.
Welcome to Holland.
Post edited December 11, 2015 by Strijkbout
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dtgreene: The fact that many people in the US are religious bigots and Christian extremists.
The funny thing is that most Christians here do not even notice the discrepancy.

I was going to say Patriotism (were #1!) or die attitude.
Most Brazilians don't read and can't understand complex texts. The government even made up a term, functional illiteracy, to describe people who are 'technically' alphabetized and still have the reading comprehension of a toddler. This is a widespread problem in our society and isn't limited to a specific social class. Obviously, media conglomerates and politicians take advantage of this to manipulate the population all the time.

:(
I was going to write up a list of complaints, but honestly, the worst thing about Estonia is the constant whining about how bad things are here, as if nobody else has problems, so I'll just leave this video here (English subtitles available via the CC button in the bottom of the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aADjmpAHEYE
And the best thing about Estonia is that the women outnumber men 3 to 1. I had the opportunity to interview your former prime minister ' Siim Kallas'. Fun times.

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Mrstarker: I was going to write up a list of complaints, but honestly, the worst thing about Estonia is the constant whining about how bad things are here, as if nobody else has problems, so I'll just leave this video here (English subtitles available via the CC button in the bottom of the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aADjmpAHEYE
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Strijkbout: Welcome to Holland.
I liked my first trip in Amsterdam ;)
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brunosiffredi: Most Brazilians don't read and can't understand complex texts. The government even made up a term, functional illiteracy, to describe people who are 'technically' alphabetized and still have the reading comprehension of a toddler. This is a widespread problem in our society and isn't limited to a specific social class. Obviously, media conglomerates and politicians take advantage of this to manipulate the population all the time.

:(
That's a shame but sooner or later Brazil will rise above it.
Say, I watched a movie Elite Squad - is it really so bad in favelas?
Post edited December 11, 2015 by Cadaver747
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Strijkbout: Welcome to Holland.
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Cadaver747: I liked my first trip in Amsterdam ;)
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brunosiffredi: Most Brazilians don't read and can't understand complex texts. The government even made up a term, functional illiteracy, to describe people who are 'technically' alphabetized and still have the reading comprehension of a toddler. This is a widespread problem in our society and isn't limited to a specific social class. Obviously, media conglomerates and politicians take advantage of this to manipulate the population all the time.

:(
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Cadaver747: That's a shame but sooner or later Brazil will rise above it.
Say, I watched a movie Elite Squad - is it really so bad in favelas?
It's pretty accurate. Sometimes it can be a lot worse than that.
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Lionel212008: And the best thing about Estonia is that the women outnumber men 3 to 1. I had the opportunity to interview your former prime minister ' Siim Kallas'. Fun times.

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Mrstarker: I was going to write up a list of complaints, but honestly, the worst thing about Estonia is the constant whining about how bad things are here, as if nobody else has problems, so I'll just leave this video here (English subtitles available via the CC button in the bottom of the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aADjmpAHEYE
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Lionel212008:
The women outnumber us as at an incompatible age group (at least for me, not into grannies :))

Pic from wikipedia, from 2009.
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Post edited December 11, 2015 by dewtech