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I would say that the US, for the most part, is enough for the purposes of this discussion. Especially given that US politics can be defined as right and left, without too much blurring of important distinctions, and we can reasonably agree where the lines are, but once you start mixing the US in...

That makes it a bit hard to communicate. And I'm pretty sure that Obama is not right of center in the US, that more than 50% of the population is further left then he is.

If you define the political center to be the political center of the world, then of course it does. How we pick the center is not a fact; it's a definition, and that claim may hold for some definitions but does not for others. What is your definition of the political center?

What center? I'm pretty sure that supporting religious freedom, universal suffrage, more or less equal rights for men and women, and complete democratic control put every recent US president to the left of the average person in the world today. (The EU is less than 10% of the world's population...

Any group is known by what it does, and a group formed to exert political power is going to be known for how it exerts political power. Someone who supports that party despite how it does that is saying more about themselves then the party. That seems unlikely. A dozen candidates to the...

I can't find the fivethirtyeight link, but Nate Silver points out that if you take his approve - disapprove numbers, he ranks below the middle of the pack, at +4--47% approve, 43% disapprove. Rubio, for example, may have only 6% of the people picking him, but he's like a +25% by the same...

That's nonsense. The question was, how can you know how much support Trump has and how much he represents the Republican Party if you ignore polls? I'm not even really discussing Trump; the question is about how we understand the field under discussion. No, asking a couple of your friends is not...

You're not being asked to defend a party; you're being asked to defend throwing out the evidence and then making evidential claims. The plural of anecdote is not data. The plural of anecdote is not data. The plural of anecdote is not data. I'm not saying we shouldn't question our sources of...

You've made various claims, like Trump bringing out the conservative radicals not representative of the Republican party as a whole. I don't see why anyone should give those claims the least bit of thought if you deny any source of information with any sort of reliability that could back up...

Does anything represent the Republican party as a whole? Certainly the leader in the polls for the Republican nomination is a good warning sign of the underlying nature of the party. In arguments like this, there's always a lot of goalpost moving; what represents the good side of my group is not...

I find it frustrating how the opposite problem from "anchor babies" isn't discussed, the social and personal costs of a person born in the US, raised in the US, who may never have left the country, being exiled from their home. This goes double if we're talking repeal of birthright citizenship...

There are noticeable third parties making works for 5E, more than 4E as far as I can tell. I think you should look at the people running the games, more than the players. Maybe it's different online, with more flexibility; I don't know, nor do I know how many people are playing that way. But...

I do not feel they have the moral right to put an undead ooze under the OGL and claim we don't have a right to call it an "undead ooze". The idea is risible. And "undead ooze" was not something that randomly fell under their restrictions; it was their choice of example. There's an important...

In a comparative discussion of licenses, saying the OGL has a 92 word definition that could be written "“Product Identity” means anything clearly identified as Product identity by the owner of the Product" is not a point in favor of the OGL. But the OGL is sort of a Share-Alike license. If you...

In more or less chronological order: The Scarred Lands Creature Collection includes creature names in their PI, which is by the license, but specifically calls out Undead Ooze, an incredibly generic name, the only value of making it PI being to avoid sharing. Perhaps more charitably to make it...

Why should a 3PP clutter their book with legalese? The OGL forces the 3PP to do so, but the CC-BY doesn't. If a third party publisher, working with a CC-BY system, wants to contribute material back as OGC, stuff another PDF in the ebook download. (Yes, those who only get the physical book...

The CC-BY license doesn't prevent anybody who uses the system from doing practically anything with it. The only thing it demands is credit. The CC-BY-SA license is excellent at producing non-generic worlds. As I said, Traveller is an example of a universe that has been ill-served by licenses...

If you want to have Product Identity, you don't put it in the SRD. That solves that problem. The CC-BY works very well in the case that you have a base document that everyone can extend with whatever they want, and the CC-BY-SA works very well in the case that you don't particularly want other...

If you use the CC-BY on a work, like FATE does, someone can base a work on that and use whatever license they want, as long as they provide the attribution the CC-BY requires. WotC could have licensed the SRD under the CC-BY and used whatever license they wanted on their books, and others could...

The necessity of including a copyright notice in the US was ended with the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 that came into effect in 1989; it was part of the Bueno Aires Convention, but become moot in this regard in 2000 when Nicaragua became the last adherent to that convention to...