Most obviously:
The British.
Conquered India.
Sucked it dry.
It really wasn’t about the cartridges. That’s an answer invented by the British press to the nonsensical question “why aren’t they grateful?”.
In Dutch it’s ‘vakidioot’.
It means somebody who is really into, and good at, his/her profession. If meant positive. When meant negative, it’s somebody who only can talk and lives from (out) her/his profession.
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I suspect that the closest English equivalent is “engineer”.
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These are times of change, and I do want to believe Trump represents the dying throes of an old way.
Not quite naive enough for that anymore, but the rise of Bernie really is a little ray of sunshine in the political gloom.
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Lol, there are indeed a lot of ‘vakidioten’ amongst engineers. 
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Not to harsh your mellow, but the rise of Bernie AND of Trump are signs of polarisation and instability, brought about by austerity. In any other context, I’d be happy as hell to see how well Bernie is doing, but in this context, it’s actually very alarming, as it’s coupled with the rise of fascism - and a much more muscular fascism vs an-actually-very-moderate socialism. And then, of course, there’s the risk that Trump may get nominated and given the endemic sexism and anti-Semitism in America, he may well win overall.
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To an outsider Bernie is a long overdue gust of moderation in American politics.
The fact that his platform is seen as “extremist” is terrifying.
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HRC represents the limits of the respectable left.
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What worries me from your chart is (a) 46% of whites approving of Trump - that means some voters within the range of average IQ support him - and (b) 18% of Hispanics approving of him, which shows that they haven’t actually been listening.
But I think I have worked out Trump’s plan, if he secures the nomination.
Basically he intends to run a new version of The Apprentice with the jobs of Secretary of State and so on up for grabs. Viewing figures will be stupendous. Perhaps people will be charged $10 a vote on a premium line, with no limits on votes cast for a candidate - selling offices may be illegal but is selling the possibility of an office? He could fund his campaign and end up with billions over.
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I think that assumes that all hispanics agree on the immigration issue, which they don’t. I’d guess that he has a strong base of support there among older, conservative Cubans-Americans.
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Ignorant isn’t a name, it’s an adjective:
- lacking knowledge or information
- resulting from or showing a lack of knowledge
Will it be gold? Or maybe more like:
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He says he’ll repeal Obamacare, and replace it with “something that truly addresses the 42 million uninsured”.
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Something? What, exactly? Please point to any time he has explained exactly how he will do what he says he will do (making Mexico magically pay for the wall doesn’t count).
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Jinxies!
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That chart’s a bit old. While even 1% support for Trump is really distressing, hispanic favorability has been steadily dropping (it was around 11% recently). I’m guessing getting in a feud with the Pope is not going to heal that. A Gallup poll from a few weeks ago had Trump’s net unfavorability at 60%, the highest unfavorability ever recorded for any candidate (Bush 43 had a higher unfavorability of 66% at the end of his term, though). Non-white/non-males are more unfavorable on Trump more than anyone ever, and Romney illustrated that you can’t win on hoping for more white people to appear.
If he takes the primary (which is looking more and more likely) there’ll be a lot more of Trump being a lying, ignorant, boorish, bullying, racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, con-man in everyone’s field of vision. He also isn’t the type to run to the center after the primary to try to actually get a broad enough coalition to win and his behavior will alienate far more of the population than it will win over.
Were he to win, though, wow that would be an unprecedented meltdown.
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I haven’t yet heard any Trump supporters actually articulate why they’re OK with his racist, woman-hating, xenophobic rhetoric yet. I mean, they’ll say “he’s an outsider!” or “he’s my guy!” but when anyone asks about Trump’s actual words, it’s silence (or insults, or ad hominems). So, have at it. I’d love to hear an intelligent explanation.
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If he keeps doing well, I assume they’ll come out of their hate-closets and let you know just how they feel about women, foreigners, and minorities… There isn’t an intelligent explanation for it.
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Yes, I did actually realise that, I was just being snarky. We have the same problem here in the UK: older immigrants from India and the West Indies who oppose immigration, and others who are anti-EU because they imagine that if we leave the EU there will be no immigration from Europe and they will find it easier to bring their families in. They have no concept that white racists don’t distinguish between someone fresh off an aeroplane, and their grandchildren.
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What makes you think older Hispanics approve of the Pope? He’s a dangerous near-Communist. Didn’t he meet the Russian Orthodox Patriarch in Cuba?
Terrifying but, to anyone familiar with the websites of the Cato Institute and its relatives, not exactly surprising.
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Ah! The native language of the BBS! Carry on then! 
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I am quite sure you know better than anyone here.
There still is. Are you sure you’re done growing up, uh… … bud?
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[quote=“galaxies, post:115, topic:74006”] i sure hope the discussion is more informed at that point.
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Be the change!
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