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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4785 on: April 17, 2014, 11:20:57 am »

Well, he is Cao Cao. Frankly, I think his achievements should be learned about either way.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4786 on: April 17, 2014, 11:23:26 am »

Argh! Et tu, MetalSlimeHunt?  :P
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4787 on: April 17, 2014, 11:24:08 am »

Well, he is Cao Cao. Frankly, I think his achievements should be learned about either way.
If I had my way there'd be a whole lot of people who the world would have to know. But installing mandatory education for the masses seems a tad bit unethical and uneconomical.

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4788 on: April 17, 2014, 12:38:09 pm »

... Pretty sure we already have mandatory education... For the masses even!
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4789 on: April 17, 2014, 12:44:17 pm »

Yeah but that's there to make you educated stupid so it doesn't count.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4790 on: April 17, 2014, 01:55:04 pm »

Hey now, it has been shown that education is totally profitable for the state in the long term by increasing taxable wage revenues, economic productivity and reducing the drain on other services. Therefore, spend all the monies on education.

Oh, wait, diminishing returns totally kicks in. Ah well.

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4791 on: April 17, 2014, 01:59:05 pm »

At least they cancel each other out somewhat, and I'd rather have an educated nation than a non educated one. Education leads to a better market for consumerists like me.
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« Reply #4792 on: April 17, 2014, 04:16:39 pm »

At least they cancel each other out somewhat, and I'd rather have an educated nation than a non educated one. Education leads to a better market for consumerists like me.
Truly educated population would probably reject the idea of their education existing only to improve consumerism culture...
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4793 on: April 17, 2014, 04:19:25 pm »

When I thought of education I  thought of government funded black helicopters that would deliver soldiers into your house who would detail to you the exploits of Cao Cao or else death.
Schools are a viable alternative.

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4794 on: April 17, 2014, 04:23:33 pm »

Now, I don't know about you, but that would probably improve my grades.

And degrade my mental stability.

Alternatively, you could send people to the place a Canadian friend of mine went. Sent to learn, and do nothing but learn. Very harsh. Gruel for breakfast. Really, I think I'll stick with school  :-\
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« Reply #4795 on: April 17, 2014, 04:24:31 pm »

When I thought of education I  thought of government funded black helicopters that would deliver soldiers into your house who would detail to you the exploits of Cao Cao or else death.
Schools are a viable alternative.

Combine both and you have the best of both worlds.

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« Reply #4796 on: April 19, 2014, 04:52:08 am »

When I thought of education I  thought of government funded black helicopters that would deliver soldiers into your house who would detail to you the exploits of Cao Cao or else death.
Schools are a viable alternative.

Combine both and you have the best of both worlds.

school funded soldiers that deliver governments into your house?

that's one of the better uses of my tax mooncoins
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4797 on: April 19, 2014, 04:53:13 am »

When I thought of education I  thought of government funded black helicopters that would deliver soldiers into your house who would detail to you the exploits of Cao Cao or else death.
Schools are a viable alternative.

Combine both and you have the best of both worlds.

school funded soldiers that deliver governments into your house?

School-funded black helicopters that deliver Cao Cao into your governments.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #4798 on: April 19, 2014, 11:17:27 am »

When I thought of education I  thought of government funded black helicopters that would deliver soldiers into your house who would detail to you the exploits of Cao Cao or else death.
Schools are a viable alternative.

Combine both and you have the best of both worlds.

school funded soldiers that deliver governments into your house?

School-funded black helicopters that deliver Cao Cao into your governments.
Well, I'm always up for educating politicians with a dose of reality.
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« Reply #4799 on: April 20, 2014, 11:36:34 am »

Well, I have been buoyed somewhat today by recent Scottish independence polls.

Over the last few months, polls have generally been indicating that support for independence is going up. The last big one by the pollster Panelbase indicated that support for independence had risen a bit (up to something like 46% from 45%) but the No vote had solidified at around 50% with the remaining don't knows (enough to swing the vote) leaning towards Yes. Interestingly though, the biased newspapers began scrutinising that poll heavily and trying to discredit the pollster, claiming that last year lots of Nationalists registered with the company as volunteers (it's a lot like YouGov) for polling to create a pro-Yes bias. Fascinating that they never criticised YouGov or any other similar pollsters when they were showing strong Unionist leads. They were even running with some headlines saying "Is the yes campaign really gaining ground? Is the support really increasing?" and that kind of shit, even "has support for independence stalled?", trying desperately to cast doubt.

The press line changed from "support for independence just isn't moving and the unionists have this in the bag" to "support for independence isn't moving up fast enough".

Then, hilariously, this happens. Apparently a poll by the British pollster ICM has indicated that the polls only need to swing 2 points in favour of Yes for the Yes side to win. When the "don't knows" are excluded the figure is something like 52% No, 48% yes. If just 2% of No's go to Yes, it becomes 50/50. When "don't knows" are included, the No vote is down from 46% to 42% in just one month.

Even the most biased newspapers like The Scotsman are running with headlines saying stuff like "Yes on the brink of victory". The Spectator is saying that it's time for the Unionists to panic.

There is a very good chance that, come July, we will indeed be ahead. I hope for that, I really do.
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