Espen Gisvold

A despicable human being

LOL

You, as the Ukrainian people are stunning. Brave, proved, strong, united and filled with hope and resilience!

We are. Plodding along :D

There is a Norwegian proverb: "Boasting stinks, but it comes from the heart". TACO has really taken this to a new level, he stinks like pure sewage!

Imagine how it will feel waking up one morning and capitalism is abolished! The problem isn't TACO but the system that glorifies exploitation of workers.

Streeting is too smooth for his own good and one with his own rather corrupt skeletons in his closet. Labour today is far removed from labour in your fathers days. How are you by the way? Hope you're doing ok.

Good on BBC! Stand up against TACO! He, as usual, has no leg to stand on!

Nine months ago? I thought it was nine month hence :D

3/3 Politics is done within a given set of paradigms. If you base your decisions and actions on the false understanding that you "won a landslide election" and not that the tories "lost a land slide election", you will have an arroganse and a lack of connection with the people you are ment to serve

2/3 They live the lie that they won a landslide election! It is repeated day in and day out. They DID NOT! They had LESS votes than Corbyn got. They did NOT win because they were LOVED. They won because the electorate HATED the tories.

1/3 Why is Labour polling/doing so badly? There are many reasons, of course. Bad policies and sleaze (freebees, tax dodging and being in bed with lobbyists and companies advocating privatisation of NHS) are some examples. I think it is a more fundamental problem.

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Garage owner: Sorry, hope you don't mind waiting...
Me: Of course I am, I'm a busy retiree, I mean I'm time poor
Other customer: Being a retiree is damed hard - you never have a day off!
Me thinking: Is this an abuse of my human rights, never ever having a break/holiday?

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Once in a blue moon I manage!

Tonight was a very bad night.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Your first statement had NOTHING about the greens policies OTHER than the emotion that it gave you [bad] vibes. That is NOT argument, simply emotive. I'm now finished with this discussion as it is going nowhere.

Being pragmatic, as I demonstrated by the discussion of paradigms is a surrender to status quo

"He gives me the vibes ..." That is 100% emotional

But you argue with emotions and not with arguments!! "Vibes" etc.

En strålende ide!

Sure. My beef is if you want to "attach" them, argue their policies not "feelings" of populism or whatever. If we, "the left of centre" cannot respect each other and discuss issues rather than personalities and whatnot we really don't stand a chance to achieve anything. MP has a great sketch..

As is energy prices in the part of Norway that is connected to the European grid! In the parts that is not they are a tenth! The space here is far to short to outline the shortcomings of capitalism and privatisation of communal services like health, energy, transport, irrigation etc.

2/2 Politics is not about what is possible within the constraints of the current paradigm - it is about changing the paradigm to fit what you think is "right" for whatever reason. This means to break through and out of what is "pragmatic". So if you agree with the greens policies, support them.

1/2 You'd be surprised by what is possible if the political paradigm changes! Changing from whatever you would call the political paradigm prior to Thatcherism to Thatcherism made it possible to make choices that was impossible prior to the change.

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:D is a smily face. This was 98% the ingredients www.jamesmartinchef.co.uk/recipes/dayb...

Something like this. So for each percentage point, one gets $1.39 in return. This is simplistic. You don't get a more GDP just by rising taxes, BUT countries with good public services creates a working environment where people are more productive. Starting point for a doctorate in Economy?

A good picture of "level of taxation", is to look at total government intake as proportion of GDP. I did an analysis of this some years ago and looked at at the correlation between high levels of taxation and high productivity. Low and behold, high taxation correlates to high productivity. Net gain!

From 1967 sure, but not from 1935 - 67.