Steffan
@seneddbound
Welsh pro-market lefty, in all the unelectable ways. Neither Washington nor Moscow but international social democracy!
Confession: I had to put that comment to AI to understand it. I got a pretty good explainer though! I did wonder whether the causal path of this point might be the reverse though:
Social Democrat, Libertarian globalist, unsurprisingly. Pretty sure I'm more Left-wing economically, as I'm basically a Nordic model fan, yet it says Sweden is 'Far Left' - a country that has no minimum wage, and low corporate taxes.
Weird leader by the Economist this week. It breaks down all the structural reasons why America is in decline to the benefit of China, and then upends the whole piece by concluding the US is the future, because... vibes.
You're worrying about a concentration of economic inactivity and multiple deprivations in post-industrial South Wales valleys? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MERTHYR
It's standard for election observers to observe and document, rather than intervene when voting takes place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electio...
They're not 'my lot'! Like I said, I haven't observed elections for years. That said, a glance at their website shows they're hardly just 'observing muslims'.
How about these charts? And this article? Since then, things have improved much more than expected, given how solar power and to a lesser extent battery tech has improved far more than the most optimistic projections ourworldindata.org/co2-gdp-deco...
The arguments deployed against the charge that he's a fascist was that he wasn't militaristic or keen on foreign expansion, whereas fascists put uniformed thugs out on the streets. I've huge respect for Richard Evans, but the analysis isn't holding up well. www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...
Pretty sure this Valleys plate is intended to be read as 'Where to, butt?' Tidy.
Oh, and since we're talking about Vietnam, look at it's economy once it moved away from socialism and towards a "socialist orientated market economy" in 1986.