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College of Theseus
- rudiv 8y agoLove the guy pushing the semantic republic =/= democracy argument in the comments with real conviction, as if the solution to American political problems lies there.
- llbowers 8y agoSeems like the vast majority of those who make the 'we are a republic not a democracy' type have misunderstood both terms and conflate republic as representative democracy and democracy as only direct democracy.
- wespiser_2018 8y agoThat was a totally off-base comment. I had to stop; scroll up again to convince myself I wasn't reading another article.
- jhbadger 8y agoI happened to look at some previous articles on the blog with this article and on most of them the same commenter makes a similar comment regardless of the topic of the article. That's his thing, I guess.
- benj111 8y ago"For example, almost every mainstream story I’ve read or heard about the financial struggles of Sears, Toys R Us, and other brick-and-mortar retailers leaves out the role of private equity, debt..." I hate it when a story spends 2 paragraphs getting to a point, and then the very first point that's made is wrong. Am I the carry on reading or what?
- jhbadger 8y agoI think the truth of the quoted statement hinges on the value of "mainstream". Yes, I've read articles that say the death of Toys R Us, et al. was due to a variety of factors including financial manipulations, but certainly a lot of articles and TV news went with the "Well, Amazon killed another store" simplification.