It kinda matters who "THEIR" refers to though. The developers and artists doing something is quite different from a bunch of moralistic bureaucrats doing something.

@vl4d_l3nin:

Oh they quit to join the Brexit Party! Lol not quite how you made it sound. And quitting the party doesn't lead you to lose your status as MEP.

So they basically quit nothing meaningful and just joined a more popular party that represented the same positions. There's not really much of a story there. Farage has obviously jumped at the chance to try and paint UKIP as bad as possible since he left. It's obviously in his interest to do so. It makes his new party look like the more moderate option (which they're trying to do so they can take as many tory voters as possible).

I don't think Sargon's necessarily any worse at it than anyone else. I mean Anne Widdecome won his particular region in the elections for the Brexit Party and then a week later she's on TV saying that science will hopefully cure homosexuality. It's dumb to think that a few stupid comments decides politics. That's really not what people vote on.

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UKIP no longer have any MEPs. So how could MEPs quit because of him?

And why did these people quit exactly? Just because of his dumb rape joke?

None of that changes the fact that what destroyed the party is that all of their voters just followed Farage.

The problem with trying to redo public opinion on something like this, is that it's heavily influenced by the behaviour of politicians since the vote.

We have a parliament of remainers, who've tried very hard to make every possible type of brexit unfeasible. It was perfectly clear that this is being done in bad faith when they voted to take no-deal off the table. That's essentially negotiation suicide. Even if you think a deal is absolutely necessary, you NEED to pretend no-deal is still possible as a bargaining chip with the EU.

This is why any kind of second referendum would be seen as illegitimate by a large number of Leave voters. We (leave voters) don't believe things would have gone so badly if the MPs had been leavers (or had just adopted the leave vote for the sake of democracy). We think it's been deliberately derailed. Which is basically just a strategy for reversing votes you don't like. If it goes the way you want, just happily deliver that result with zero mess and commotion. If it goes the wrong way, make as much mess as possible to scare people, and then demand a recount. It's basically a strategy that always allows you to preserve the status quo.

Sargon destroyed nothing. He had no real impact on anything because he has no name recognition at the level of national politics. Farage clearly destroyed UKIP. People just follow him and don't care what the party is.

I think they like him because

-He's blunt and says what he thinks.
-He's not remotely politically correct (which has some clear benefits, although Trump hasn't necessarily typified them)
-He's not part of the political and cultural elites (no, being rich doesn't necessarily make you part of the elites, it's about a cultural clique of people who share beliefs)
-He's willing to fight the left-leaning american media, where previous republicans have been fairly passive and just tolerated some of their BS.

This isn't entirely untrue. The point of tariffs is to make foreign products less competitive relative to domestic products. Which means the public is more likely to buy an american version where they'd previously bought a Chinese one. That lack of business is effectively China paying for it (just in a different sense than is sometimes implied)

Lol that would be so out of place in a Final Fantasy game. They're serious affairs.

They should do the responsible thing and just make sure they're big enough from the start, whilst pretending it's completely normal.

The thing that's become really annoying in this show is the lack of logic in any of the battle scenes. It's become purely about shock entertainment value for the audience.

Drogon successfully dodging like 40 scorpions is just highly implausible, given their 100% accuracy in the previous episode. The point where he burns down the main gate to let the army through, he flies straight in front of 2 scorpions that are pointed right at him, and they just choose not to fire at that moment.

There would've been so many ways of reaching that same ending without so much inconsistency. They just don't seem to care that much about it. As with the winterfell battle.

FF6 with the Octopath Traveler engine. That'd be awesome. Keep its retro charm.

Fairly expected given his style.

This sort of thing only really means something with liberal democracies though

The reality is that there are just as many Trumps running countries around the world as there are Obamas. Those leaders being on your side is not necessarily a good thing. It probably means they like how easy you are to exploit. China and Saudi Arabia like the US on the grounds that the US has made them both rich whilst doing almost nothing about their oppressive societies. That's not the same thing as when France or Britain dislikes you.

Anyone who just watches 1 side of the partisan media is pretty much clueless about reality.

I don't know if there's evidence that 1 side of politics is any worse about this than the other. I see it everywhere. For every old person who watches nothing but Fox News, there's a young hipster in California who's never even heard any serious conservative ideas (and is therefore Left-wing purely as a kind of vacuous default)