Admiral Beez
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It’s China or the US....choose your poison.
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Former President Donald Trump's United States of America
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Johnny Au
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Russia is also seizing the opportunity to fill the void left by the United States.
W. K. Lis
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If the UK had stayed in the EU, the EU would have become a leader. At the moment, it has "influence" that is better than the US.
Jasmine18
Senior Member
Big hope trump leaves we can sort of take a pause on cancel culture and turn the dial down a bit.
It seems we have such a toxic public discourse right now where instead of engaging in debate we just want to cancel anyone who disagrees with us.
It seems we have such a toxic public discourse right now where instead of engaging in debate we just want to cancel anyone who disagrees with us.
Towered
Senior Member
China. A world led by them is not one I want to see.
Irishmonk
Senior Member
It's hard to engage in meaningful debate with racists and ignorant fools who don't believe in science.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Can you imagine Trudeau or Ford saying they're going to reject Health Canada's recommendations on protecting students?
www.nytimes.com
At Least 5 States Set Single-Day Coronavirus Case Records (Published 2020)
Tulsa’s top health official said the Trump rally last month may have contributed to a local surge in cases. A study in England provided more evidence of crucial risk factors for Covid-19 deaths.
lenaitch
Senior Member
I'm not convinced, with or without the UK. It is economically powerful and a common market, but there are differences in foreign policy, alliances/allegiances, military capability/willingness, etc. I have not, and don't see, a unified voice on matters involving other regions of the world and how it wants to fit in.
Towered
Senior Member
And there won't be. There are too many cultural differences and needs.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
That was never in the cards. The USA and China have military might that the Euros can never have. The primary combined military capability of Europe is NATO, and by regulation it's always controlled by the USA.
As a British-Canuck I call tell you why all my relatives, in their mid 40s and up voted to leave. The EU was supposed to be a trade pact, that's it, but as all governments do, they creep and expand into parts of your life that you perhaps never thought needed regulation before. Who in Britain knew that a toilet seat could not use certain types of wood (EU Regulation No 995/2010) or that a foreign bureaucracy was needed to enforce that. You can't even take a piss without someone from Brussels telling you how to flush, https://www.euractiv.com/section/cl...-to-regulate-flushing-of-toilets-and-urinals/. And while my UK cousins are very ethnically diverse, they are very against Brussels dictating who can move and reside in the UK. Can you imagine some government office in Washington tell Canadians who is allowed entry and residence here? There just too much difference between Brits and the Continentals, and I imagine both are glad to be shod of the other.
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Jasmine18
Senior Member
I think that is my point
The debate is being dominated by increasing radicalism on each side while the moderate public is like um...
Ofc racist are horrible but you heard that letter signed by Noam chomsky and others about the dangers of mob culture and cancel culture.
There is a medium here I hope we return to that soon.
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Northern Light
Superstar
This would be the same EU that finally forced the UK into the 20thC, making it adopt Metric?
The same EU that brought massive financial aid to poor areas of the UK?
The EU that fostered London's renaissance through immigration and London becoming an even larger business/financial centre?
The one that allowed tens of thousands of UK residents to buy retirement or second homes in Spain and France?
Yes, its terrible what Brussels imposed on the UK. The horror of it all.
Admiral Beez
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Jasmine18
Senior Member
I am not equating them
I am saying a time for sense post 2020.
We know cancel culture and twitter culture is going to silly as well and its mostly in response to Trump.
AlbertC
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Five shocking passages in Mary Trump's tell-all book
7 July 2020
A tell-all memoir written by President Donald Trump's niece claims that he is a "narcissist" who now threatens the life of every American.
Mary Trump's book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, describes her uncle as a fraud and a bully.
The White House rejects claims made in the book, excerpts of which have been leaked to US media.
The Trump family has sued to block its 14 July publication.
7 July 2020
A tell-all memoir written by President Donald Trump's niece claims that he is a "narcissist" who now threatens the life of every American.
Mary Trump's book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, describes her uncle as a fraud and a bully.
The White House rejects claims made in the book, excerpts of which have been leaked to US media.
The Trump family has sued to block its 14 July publication.
Five shocking passages in Mary Trump's tell-all book
Mr Trump allegedly cheated his way into university and cannot "experience the entire spectrum of human emotion".
www.bbc.com