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by Amezarak 2y ago
> He recognized how Adams and Hamilton were just as bad as Jefferson and Madison, but he sided with them because he recognized they were ultimately correct. This would be a stronger argument if you had letters or direct quotes by him mak
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by Amezarak 2y ago
It was a coalition and Washington was certainly one of them. The Jay treaty was a defining moment in party identification. If you read the letters I linked, I think you’ll find that my comment was fairly apropos - as in the Rush letter, you
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I don't mind (and dang, I hope you don't mind me responding to this post.) I think many people tend to reflexively downvote things that seem contrarian or contradict what they know, and that it's probably generally a good t
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Washington was aligned with the Federalists, who were roughly speaking pro-British and anti-French. The antifederalists took the opposite tack. You can see what the anti-federalists thought of this generally; Paine’s open letter to Washingt
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Washington was mad about political parties because his federalist-aligned coalition was collapsing. He resigned because of his declining health and because it was no longer obvious he could win if be ran again, and he feared the resulting r
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by Amezarak 2y ago
You don’t think anyone else has root?
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How much would you like to bet? Is 20k a good number? Can you be more specific about how you’d define bloodbath so we can agree if it does or does not happen?
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by Amezarak 2y ago
One of the more bizarre things with this whole saga is seeing people act as though the existing government employees are any different. People throwing our “vetted” like it means something meaningful. No, “vetting” basically means they chec
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Prosecutors resigned, not judges. March will be no different than January.
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It isn’t illegal.
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Are you arguing that people are at risk because a comparison of Treasury and IRS records is going to reveal tax fraud or something? I don’t think that’s on the table. At any rate, Trump doesn’t need DOGE to do that, he can just order the IR
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Did you mean to respond to another comment? I was responding specifically to the claim that election turnout was low. As I said, it’s the 2nd highest since 1968 - 2020 was indeed the higher year. Like Brexit, people who don’t like what’s ha
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Except that they, an unelected private group, have already attempted to get all private and confidential citizen data from the US treasury, and have been blocked by the courts as it is illegal. It is not illegal. You can bookmark this
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by Amezarak 2y ago
A Chinese APT had unfettered access to the Treasury Department, discovered back in December. It's interesting that people are much more excited about new government employees accessing these systems as part of their duties than they ar
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by Amezarak 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States... The 2024 election had historically high turnout. The 2nd highest turnout since 1968, the 7th highest since 1932. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I don't approve of Musk for varying reasons, but FDR's relationship with Congress was a little more complicated than that. If anything, Musk and Trump have not yet come close to Roosevelt's excesses, which are now thankfully
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by Amezarak 2y ago
You're replying to a thread on an article about how someone just made up the 1875 thing to own Elon. There's definitely a "both sides" problem here. Many more commenters are making totally unfounded assertions about how
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by Amezarak 2y ago
This is not a good article. The Reuters and Politico examples, for instance, are particularly tendentious. Overpaying for subscriptions, or buying unnecessary subscriptions is exactly how such payments would operate.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Yes, but people are just making stuff up about why he’s wrong. That is literally no better. You may as well just suspend judgement about these claims. No amount of evidence is going to convince most people here: we saw that with the Hunte
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by Amezarak 2y ago
But people aren’t saying that. Instead, they’re just inventing reasons why Musk is wrong, with no evidence or invented evidence, like the subject of this article.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Not speaking for GP, but even if this story is 100% true, why would you think anyone would go to prison? Obviously, nobody wants to clog up the court system with cases like this, and the people are probably not wealthy enough to fine or eve
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by Amezarak 2y ago
We all know that Musk is not someone with a strong commitment to the truth. We all know he's a grifter. How long has FSD been coming now? What was the deal with the diver? But so much of these DOGE criticisms are simply reflexive &quot
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Yes, and it makes the implication that it was because of this she wasn’t more famous. It seems more likely that her ideas just weren’t that great. Another great example is later in the article, where pregnancy is held to refute Cartesian sk
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The article says: > In the 1950s, the philosopher Mary Midgley did something that, according to philosophical orthodoxy, she wasn’t supposed to do. In a BBC radio script for the Third Programme (the precursor of BBC Radio 3), she dared t
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Thanks for the correction, posting too early in the morning. :)
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> (typically something like 50-55k USD/year, this is much higher than anything in USA for example), This is not my experience (close friend in a flyover state makes 55k), so I googled and found this website: https://post
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It seems probable that the trend has accelerated.
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I don't think the ease really matters when we're talking about nation-states who look at the outcome of US elections as having a major impact on their country's future. Ease matters for regular people. Nation-states are prepa
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Foreign interests are always interfering in US elections (and everyone else's too); that's the price of being a democracy. It's a tale as old as democracy itself. There are plenty of other notable examples in US history, but
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It is basically impossible to have anonymized social media data that cannot be deanonymized which is also useful for anything but a very narrow kind of research.

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