England take another step closer to a #WorldCup final and the ultimate game of Schadenfreude-or-"dear Lord, they'll be intolerable" for those with a special relationship with the English, in the many parts of the world they've "visited", such as Ireland, Scotland, France ...
how is the counterfactual hard to understand? it's obviously that the world today is a better place than the world without British imperialism
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Great - now if you could put that into a coherent rigorous model of the world economy, you would become a sensation. Funny that smarter people than you or I have wrestled with this for long and, poof, along you come and it's all done.
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the smartest people of all are the ones who figure out that its impossible to model the past, present or future. Sometimes you just have to say "I dont know exactly what but they did something right"
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