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Love Actually <3

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Hi! Happy Tuesday! Irreni World Scale is about solutions and not punditry. Today's solution is about love actually. Or, about a philosophy of win-win as opposed to winners and losers as has been ushered in by Donald Trump. I mentioned Trump but this topic is love actually. The criticisms herein are mostly not about Trump,  but rather targeted at the Democratic and Republican parties, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye the science guy, Barak Obama and pretty much any thought leader in the world today. First, just because picking on Trump has been abused to death, I'm going to pick on a couple of scientists: Neil deGrasse Tyson and the value of philosophy By Massimo on May 12, 2014 It seems like my friend Neil deGrasse Tyson [1] has done it again: he has dismissed philosophy as a useless enterprise, and actually advised bright students to stay away from it. It is not the first time Neil has done this sort of thing, and he is far from being the only scientist to do