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To me it just seems immature, populist, random, yet he seems to have a huge fanbase?! As far as I can see it is much harder to reach a deal now that there is a
by chvid 11y ago
To me it just seems immature, populist, random, yet he seems to have a huge fanbase?!
As far as I can see it is much harder to reach a deal now that there is a precedence to have the negotiated deal rectified at a referendum.
- quonn 11y agoIt's not like Greece just had to get this one deal and then they would have lived happily ever after. For Greece it's not enough to get _a_ deal. They have been getting those deals for 5 years, and a new one is negotiated every few months. The issue is to get a deal that actually works.
- mwfunk 11y agoUnfortunately those are the traits many people look for in a politician, although to be charitable they're usually confusing them with more noble traits like honesty or integrity. :( Flippancy, tribalism, and reductivism all too often look like bravery and insight from a great distance, at least among people who see politics as a war rather than as an unfortunate side effect of democracy.
- jevgeni 11y agoI completely agree. Any valid economic arguments he had, he himself made absolutely unsellable due to his behaviour.
- socceroos 11y agoBullshit. People need to sit down and be told they're being stupid. Being able to take it is another thing. Call him harsh, but the more I'm reading the more valid his points seem to be. If everyone else can't handle the truth then they're being fools. Is that true?
- peterfirefly 11y agoNow imagine a universe, a parallel universe, if you like, in which the Greeks were the stupid ones... > If everyone else can't handle the truth then they're being fools.
- socceroos 11y agoI assume you're referring to the situation that the Greeks have got themselves into in the first place? Take a step back, the idiocy of the past is history. There is the idiocy of the now to deal with.
- jevgeni 11y agoHe has some good economic arguments at best and only if you subscribe to the school of economic thought he adheres to. What I've seen of him, he is what the Germans would call a "Fachidiot" (something like "subject idiot" in English), someone who cannot see further than their own subject matter.
- peterfirefly 11y agoAs a native Dane with a decentish working knowledge of German, I'd say the Danish word "distanceblænder" ("distance blinder", "distance dazzler") is more fitting: Someone who (or something which) superficially dazzles with apparent qualities but on closer inspection disappoints utterly. http://ordnet.dk/ods/ordbog?query=distancebl%C3%A6nder http://ordnet.dk/ods/ordbog?query=distancebl%C3%A6nder (I agree completely with your description: some good arguments at best and then only if...)
- jevgeni 11y agoAwesome. Thank you for the cool word!