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Comment Re:As an American I think this is tip of the icebe (Score 2) 106

It's not just Trump (you're giving him to much credit). It's also the Republican Party...
If you want to cure your country first thing you'll have to do is to get rid of the "first past the post" election system. That's just an utterly retarded system and has nothing to do with democracy....

Comment Staying at home (Score 1) 425

Here in the Netherlands all universities are closed. They're providing remote lectures if possible. All schools are closed, except for those in their final year.
Daycare centers are closed except for children where the parents are working in hospitals and other comparable organisations.
Dentists are closed unless it's urgent.
Sportclubs, bars and restaurants are all closed, coffeshops also, which caused long lines of people trying to get some hash/weed in advance.
I expect more shops are being closed in the next week...
Where possible people are working from home. At my work most office people work from home, on the workfloor where it's impossible to work from home the shifts no longer overlap and we reduced the workforce...
I'm not to concerned for me, my wife and my children, but I'm concerned for our parents.
I put our parents in quarantine, as they're at risk. My father has COPD and some other lung problems. If he gets the virus he won't survive. My mother is a heart patient... Same story there. And my mother in law has undergone a surgery less than a week ago...
I've set up Google Duo for video calling and we're doing the shopping/groceries for them, minimizing the contact with the outer world, just to make the chances of survival as large as possible...

Comment Re:Last straw? (Score 1) 533

Ehh... Hawker Hurricane based on a biplane? Are you serious?
Yes, the punishment of Germany after WWI was way to harsh and we should kick the French in their nuts for that... but Nazi Germany could have been stopped early 1930's.
Chamberlain was only thinking shortterm and was to eager to preserve peace while war was inevitable...

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