Germany is usually at least in the top fifteen of that list, if not in the top ten. It's not as big as the US, but the disparity is substantially smaller than between the US and Denmark
I would be quite interested to see how they would rank the EU. Not an average of the EU countries, a score for the actual EU itself
I believe that the main reason for people as wealthy as him to own newspapers is not the money, it's the influence. This does hurt that
When my cat headbutts me. I love that little guy
While you're obviously not wrong to play the way you like playing, you won because none of your opponents were playing effectively with the strategy Vindictive describes. You can comfortably get a science victory centuries before 1900 without even playing a civ that has science buffs. Someone playing tall science well doesn't need to ever let the game get anywhere near 1900.
So I got petty. I couldn't beat him at the manipulation game.
Well this clearly isn't true, you just work more slowly
If we're going to introduce a different way to write the voiced dental fricative, dh is the obvious sensible choice
It was definitely legit in the sense of it being something completely counterable by my friend had she been looking out for it, and it certanly wasn't an exploit. It did still feel dirty to make use of information that she hadn't noticed to get her to defeat herself, particularly since it only worked by me carefully not saying anything about it for as long as it took to do
I worked out the Monopoly strategy of buying houses aggressively and refusing to upgrade to hotels
In Civ VI, I let my friend conquer a city from me because that put her civ over into having a majority of its cities following my religion, which won me the game
Heads up, you've got your link and your text the wrong way around. They need to go [text everyone sees](actual URL)
Sanders turns out to have no idea how to play a shooter game and the next day every news outlet reports that he defected to the communist automatons
And your solution is to give it to the guy who did the exact same thing more actively and who is promising to do it harder? Right. Sure.
There are ways to mitigate this. Scotland and Wales use a system that's basically FPTP with compensation. It's not perfectly proportional and some of the elected representatives are from a party list rather than being voted on individually, but the individual ones are picked first and it's proportional enough that voting for smaller parties isn't a waste of time