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These are the kind of men that founded our country, better men than exist today. This is the type of thinking that led to America, and these are the cultural echo's many young culturally American boys hear from their fathers and grandf
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There are two basic world views. One is based on order and rule. You have a leviathan, an absolute ruler, who imposes order on society. The other is one based on freedom and law/justice. A society based on affirmative mutual consent an
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Solidarity, putting yourself at risk in service of a cause for the benefit of the whole, is the foundation of freedom and democracy. Divide and conquer is the strategy of authoritarianism. Being solid against efforts to divide us is the onl
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These is a timer to substantively act and it's soon coming up. Right now the government is avoiding truly unpopular unjustifiable policy while it is purging the old government and placing loyalists into positions of power, something an
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That's false. Everything comes down to good leadership. Monarchies with good leadership very well might have incredibly effective anti-corruption techniques and competency. China is managing a billion people and their infrastructure an
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America has done an absolutely terrible job of teaching people about rights. If governments granted rights then they would be privileges not rights. In western tradition governments exist to protect rights, such as the freedom of expressi
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The golden prize for America's enemies is to remove the US dollar as a global reserve currency. Since trade is conducted largely in USD, that means other governments must purchase USD to trade. This is the core of trade deficits. Forei
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I've talked to several Iranians, they pretty much said that that's what happened to Iran. People tore it down because they were unhappy with their current government, but they didn't have a replacement. Authoritarians with fa
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Accusing someone of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a rhetorical technique to pathologize dissent -- to call dissent a sickness, an irrationality. You did all but use the term. You're presupposing my anger at disastrous policy deci
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Because America has the "exorbitant privilege" of being a global reserve currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege (it's a Wikipedia page about monetary policy).
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These tariffs are a soft blockade carried out as part of a decapitation strike[1] against America. Imagine you are Russia, and you want to stop American support of Ukraine or that you are China and you want to annex Taiwan. You can't e
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Part of due process is determining if you are are protected by the law and if people are robbed of due process then the constitution already constructively doesn't apply to citizens. When a judge blocks a federal action, that's no
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The head of OMB pretty much directly said that science backed departments, like the EPA, are being destroyed/hamstrung so that they can't regulate industry, like our energy sector.
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Objective truth isn't something you can know, but it's a destination that must exist for pursuit of knowledge/curiosity to have any meaning. With contradictions you know what is not true, and through knowing what is not true,
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They were anti tyranny. Governments tend to be tyrannical, but they weren't against governments, they were against tyranny. Timothy Snyder is the modern embodiment of founding father ideology/enlightenment philosophy and my origin
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This is a direct quote from the guy running the Office of Management and Budget, Russel Vought: We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are
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The fluoride thing alone wouldn't even move the needle or be too worth talking about on its own, but when you see everything that is happening and you know it's just the public things, it gives a distinctly different context aroun
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Truth and even the idea that there is objective truth is a fundamentally political concept. Authoritarians are opposed to the idea of objective truth because objective truth gives a person a foundation on which to criticize and dissent from
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We can read this country's founding philosophy directly: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Libert
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Like the vitamins and minerals added to cereals/milk or the iodine added to salt?
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Putting fluoride in water promotes freedom. That sounds crazy, but let me justify it. If you are poor you can't go anywhere or buy anything. You're not free if you're poor. If you are sick, you may be confined to a hospital b
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There are two possible first axioms for how someone interprets reality. The first is: "Two statements that contradict eachother means one of them are wrong". The second is that "My authority figure tells me what is true.&qu
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It also seems to mirror the rhyme with the vaccine "debate." That debate is framed around being vaccinated vs the scare of "vaccine caused autism" (or myocarditis), but that frame is missing the risk of things like measl
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How many countries actually drink their tap water as their main source of water?
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You're not wrong in that our culture is different, but that cultural difference is chiefly a self fulfilling prophecy of "the government can't do it," promoted by billionaire owned media, so that those same billionaires
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I hope dang looks at this and takes this for the warning it is. Curiosity cannot survive neutrality towards authoritarianism.
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Yes, it lies chiefly on our government and regulatory authorities. Governments exist to maintain a commons in the tragedy of the commons. The market, as well as societal trust, is a commons. People in power make individuals responsibl
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Just like when the pitchforks came out in Nazi Germany in order to overthrow the Nazi regime... /s Pitchforks don't work without a supporting institution, and the Intelligence state, corporate and governmental, is very very capabl
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Yes. Jon Stewart has said multiple times something like "it's just resource guarding," which is easy to say from a position of abundance. He is the populist voice of the educated left and I find lots of echo's in my own
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Corporate power funds both of them, but Trump offered a better deal (no law to restrict them). So democrats find themselves abandoned and powerless at the most important time to have power -- the ability to do something when someone does so

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