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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I live right near Hanscom AFB. If the exchange happens, I'm probably going to end up with a nuke landing in my backyard.
Gotta start building those Vaults.
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The "Republic, not Democracy" meme is the point where a political discussion, any political discussion is completely unworkable and daft as soon as it's introduced. The definition of a Republic as a polity where there's a certain equality between the members of the ruling body is archaic, and is insufficient to describe any non-monarchical government made in the last four hundred years.
edited 23rd Dec '16 11:14:37 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."The academic definition I've seen of a Republic in recent years is a government where the head of state is a non-hereditary position, ideally one who is elected. That's it. A government where there is only one choice for each elected position is clearly not a functional democracy, but it is a republic, even if there's only ever been one guy in the head of state position.
To simplify things a bit. While the US is a Republic, Canada is not. And it has basically no bearing on the day to day lives of the people. (There are big differences in culture, but basically none of them come from having the Queen as our head of state. We pretty much treat the Prime Minister, culturally speaking, like a president anyway.)
I also live very close to a bunch of counterforce targets, and while I've never been prone to existential worry, I've lost sleep over it already. The idea that I and my family could just disappear in an instant due to some idiot manchild antagonizing the entire world is not a comforting one.
It's been fun.Yeah. A key point of white supremacist philosophy is that they see any gains by other races as a deliberate attack on them. That's where the whole stupid "White Genocide" thing comes from. So far as they're concerned, everything was going great until all those other races started stirring up trouble.
This gives them a terrible sense of self-righteousness in their efforts to tear everyone down. They're not just going, "Imma stick it to all you non-whites!" They're going, "I didn't WANT to make it a race thing but y'all and your n——r President MADE it a race thing so now it's a race thing and we're gonna win!"
And ignoring the fact that the race thing has been ongoing since literally the country's inception.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Re: NC no longer being a democracy.
The worst part is, NC is just the first one. It's the canary in the coal mine. Now the GOP have seen that they can get away with this, and they will try to implement the same tactics in other states, and eventually on a national scale.
If they aren't stopped, then the entire U.S. is going to end up on par with Indonesia and Sierra Leone. That's their endgame.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Except for the Vatican not being considered a republic. But otherwise it's correct. Germany is a democratic republic, Sweden is a democratic monarchy, China is an authoritarian republic and Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian monarchy. Both, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were republics. It's not a good thing in and of itself. Whoever brings up the "Republic, not Democracy" thing is basically outing themselves as an authoritarian anti-democrat (small d).
edited 23rd Dec '16 12:14:45 PM by Antiteilchen
He's also alarmingly careful about it. It's one of the points about his impending Presidency that I'm hesitant to bring up as a point against him in conversation, because as a former Republican, I can already see its potential for interpretation.
When Trump asks a department to name names of those working on progressive systems
- A Democrat sees Trump preparing for a Red Scare-esque purge of progressive policies.
- A Republican sees Trump wanting to identify areas of interest for important policies that he needs to learn more about.
We have no definitive proof that Trump isn't asking for these names just so he can talk to those people and learn more about what they do and how it benefits the country he's now expected to govern. Without that proof, someone who has been effectively inoculated to all his behavior prior won't see anything wrong with what he's doing.
An effective tyrant is one whose behavior does not look tyrannical if you don't already know he's a tyrant.
edited 23rd Dec '16 12:23:53 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The Vatican is generally considered an elective absolute monarchy, yes.
Because of things like the Vatican and various independent bishoprics in past ages, governments are often categorized as monarchies, theocracies, or republics, though if one system is omitted, it's usually theocracy, which gets lumped as a form of monarchy.

""North Carolina does so poorly on the measures of legal framework and voter registration, that on those indicators we rank alongside Iran and Venezuela."
As a Venezuelan I must said....damn, NC is so Fuckling,fuckity,FUCK
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