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You don't need to go that far back in the mid 1800's one Senator beat another Senator almost to death on the Senate floor.
by hpoe 6y ago
You don't need to go that far back in the mid 1800's one Senator beat another Senator almost to death on the Senate floor.
- xapata 6y agoAnecdotes (US History) are useful for building hypotheses, but I like statistical evidence for testing those theories. Unfortunately, our best source of democracy data (Rome, at least 52 Greek city-states, Greek leagues, etc.) may be 2k years old. Obviously, we don't know much about the media of the day, so it'll be hard to test some of the modern social media theories. Maybe we could compare the behavior of different municipalities.