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Oh cool, I was wondering when the excuses and tinfoil hat theories would start coming out of the woodworks. Those are always more entertaining than the debate itself. Fire away, lads.

Anyone watched the debate? I think Trump made some good points regarding Clinton's deficiencies and how political promises only go so far (IE not at all), but he also didn't have a great debate. He was baited by both Clinton and the moderator into talking about himself rather than his platform...

Yeah, this may be the week that derails Clinton's campaign beyond repair. People are used to Trump slinging insults around, but she damaged her own image there by stooping to this level. That was stupid. What concerns (or well, would concern me had I been american) is her health. Pneumonia is...

Yeah, we're still 2 months from D-Day so I wouldn't count Trump out by any means, but if he keeps running his mouth I honestly doubt he's going to win, and that's against a Democrat candidate that is widely hated too. It's like he doesn't even realize that he's not speaking solely to...

Yeah, I really don't think there's that much malice in Trump. He's not someone who hates a particular group, I think. He just doesn't give a single flying fuck about anyone or anything but himself, lacks tact and sensitivity, and isn't afraid of showing all that. Some people think those traits...

And now Donald ''I'm a winner'' Trump is apparently calling the election fraudulent ahead of schedule, you know, probably in case he loses and can blame it on something else than he putting his foot in his mouth almost daily at the moment. Some polls are putting Hilary almost 10% ahead of him...

With how pathetic the Republican's candidate pool was, and how much of a deadlock the Democrat establishment has on their party's primaries, I'm not even sure that's such a certainty anymore. Hilary was always going to be chosen by the Democrats (as the leaked emails attest), and I suspect that...

Accusations of treason aren't that subjective when there are laws that clearly state what constitutes treason, people who spend their lives interpreting said laws, and probably a boatload of cases to back it all up. When so many sub-comitees (some of them headed by Republicans, apparently) say...

The refugee crisis is almost completely due to the various power struggles in the Middle East, and those power struggles were vastly exacerbated when the US invaded in 2003 and left a big power vacuum in their wake. To say that it would not have happened had Bush not decided to invade may be...

Yeah, sure, pour even more untold amounts of money in a ruinous war that will last for decades (unlike Germany and Japan, there is no central authority in the Middle East that can surrender to the US this time), perhaps not even solve the problem in the end as you just fuel even more martyrs to...

That's utterly subjective, however. Certainly nothing that warrants accusations of treason and jail time. To say nothing of the fact that she wasn't exactly alone in coming to those decisions, the Iran deal wasn't sealed under her watch for one thing. Might as well jail the entire Department of...

It's par for the course in politics (especially American ones) to focus on the negative, but the fixation on Clinton's errors as Secretary of State really seem out of proportion to me. I mean, the whole ''she's a traitor that needs to be locked up!'' shtick doesn't seem to hold to any sort of...

Trump's going to be in trouble if he continues running his mouth, I'd wager. I mean, encouraging the Russians to pirate and find Hilary's missing e-mails? Even as a joke, that's an utterly stupid thing to say, especially in the context where said Russians seem to openly favor Trump; small...

Oh, absolutely. I believe militant Islamism is a means to an end for most of the head honchos of those movements. The end is, of course, power. For them, perhaps for their religion or their people (or what they consider their people), but in the end, power. It's what makes them attractive to...

Maybe not assimilate in a Legion-esque way, but Stalin evolved population displacement into an artform, no matter how many people died or starved. And like Crni says, they had a history of coming down on local nationalisms. That's not unique to the USSR of course (or to Russia itself for that...

What I fear the most right now is extremism breeding more extremism. It's a spiral; extremist Muslims target civilian populace, which is then driven into the loving arms of extremists (the far-right in many European nations), which push for more restrictions and controls on Muslims which fuels...

I'm not sure NATO can afford to lose Turkey's highly strategic location. Not in a world where Russia is flexing its muscles again. Plus, it's not like NATO has ever been shy of working with authoritarian states when it suits them. Saudi Arabia isn't exactly a paradise of freedom and equality...

The two-party vote system is a massive mistake. No room for third parties means that the two natural governing parties just keep rotating, going after the same voter base each time, always has the same targets on the opposing sides, so the whole things turns into the same shitfest every time...

This isn't Call of freaking Duty. Russia isn't going to invade all of Europe in a few days with no one the wiser. Not only are they likely to be halted by the combined European militaries way before they can start hitting the rich countries, but Uncle Sam is watching and can project force way...

You've got a bit of a tunnel vision if you think Brexit has won Britain international admiration. From what I saw it mostly made the place a laughting stock with how flip-floppy the election was, how silly some of the pro-Brexit arguments were, how much a troll Farrage is, and how many regretted...