you will meet white people around here that acknowledge their immense privilege, as they complain about having to wake up early to flip burgers around the corner from the university, with it's 40% foreign born student populace.

they had opportunity, mind you. but, they decided to study a dead-end in philosophy, whereas their less privileged peers became doctors and engineers.

i'm a realist. i'm an empiricist. i just want people to see things as they actually are, not as their synthetic a priori theory incorrectly predicts them.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

well, if they don't recognize the succession then it remains in the eu as a part of spain.

and, if they do recognize the succession then it should follow that they remain in the eu, too.

i cannot imagine a scenario where the eu would recognize the succession, and yet deny entry. the political situation would have to dramatically deteriorate, to start.

https://www.thelocal.es/20171010/analysis-an-independent-catalonias-tricky-path-to-eu-membership

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

if the catalans intend on staying in the eu, it's hard to escape from the narrative that what's driving succession is a desire to avoid taxes.

but, it won't even work: if those taxes do not go to brussels, they will go to an elite in barcelona, and the middle class will be no better off.

i should have some historical attachment to catalan independence. but, this appears to be a right-wing nationalism that is in dire need of a class analysis.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

this is new.

i'm not suggesting you should take this seriously, but i am suggesting that you should be concerned about it, because it's very reminiscent of the nonsense they floated before they went into iraq.

the timing is very suspect.

it would simply be retarded for the americans to pull out of this.

give it a day or two. but if the administration runs with this then i guess the americans are, in fact, retarded.

this is full retard. full-stop.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/10/irans-secret-sites-linked-to-nuclear-weapons-development-revealed.html

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.