The General Political Thread

[Toffee]

Iraqi Kurdistan is holding a referendum for independence in the middle of a war what a meme.

Legally?

[Furrnox]

 Iraq have orderd the referendum suspended but it's gone ahead anyways.

[Toffee]

Damn that sucks. More unrest as soon as they're about to drive ISIS out of the country.

[Windflower]

sad thing is he might actually win and he would be my senator

He holds more votes than any other Republican combined in Michigan, right? lmao

[DaMonkey]

sad thing is he might actually win and he would be my senator

He holds more votes than any other Republican combined in Michigan, right? lmao

"Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."

[fruitocino]

Frauke Petry just announced she'll enter the Bundestag as an independent. Interesting development.

What difference does that make? She hold the same political views, right?

If she did, she'd have stayed in the faction.

So you're saying she got elected first and then after she got elected she revealed her true political views isn't that illegal or something?

don't you vote for the candidate rather than the party?

You do vote for the party. More specifically you vote for seats in parliament for that party; the party with the most seats provides the chancellor (their candidate) for the goverment.

[Duuring]

Only she actually won a seat in a constituency. Not that it matters, because MP's are free to leave factions.

[Edwin]

"Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."

Quite right. It's a great shame that Lewis was robbed of his CBE honours.

[StevenChilton]

Dunno where to put this but it's kinda interesting:

http://jenniferdoleac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DNA_Denmark.pdf

Suggests that traditional crime fighting strategies revolving around deterrence are far better than the progressive 'understand the criminal's point of view' approach. Raises lots of questions about storage of DNA however...

[William]

Apparently the U.S. flew some bombers over the N.K. East coast and the Koreans either didn't notice them or backed off of their claims to shoot down U.S. bombers.

To me I'm simply worried about a false flag attack to start a war, similar to how Vietnam was started off the Gulf of Tonkin 'incident.' I'd hate to get into a war with China because of their defensive pact with N.K.

[Duuring]

Yeah, China is exactly never going to war with the USA over North Korea. More likely they'll invade North Korea themselves.

[Karth]

China won't be involved, in all reality it will be NK fucking up and fighting a war on their own.

[Theodin]

Yeah, China is exactly never going to war with the USA over North Korea. More likely they'll invade North Korea themselves.

Hopefully

[StevenChilton]

China has 250,000 men stationed in Dongbei so it'd be easy to invade at short notice (that's probably a big reason why those troops are there in the first place). Whatever happens Beijing isn't going to give up the strategic depth that North Korea provides. Also obvious however that the Chinese increasingly see NK as unsustainable on its current path and want Pyongyang to carry out Deng Xiaoping style reforms, hence the planned coup for Jong-Un to make way for his older brother.

[DaMonkey]

A war between the United States and the People's Republic of China isn't likely to escalate beyond some minor, localized skirmishes over North Korea; the United States loses out on those cheap, slave labor consumer goods and the Chinese lose massive amounts of cash for those goods. The PRC would probably pretty excitedly work out a deal where they get to change the North Korean regime to something of their liking that is less volatile.