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decimation: the republican senate 'in principle' opposes the taxes and spending required to give free medical care to old people, but in reality fully supports showering its vote bank with trinkets
mircea_popescu: <decimation> there&apos;s a point to this (the idea that the losing party claims &apos;philosophic victory&apos;). but there&apos;s a long tradition of &apos;old republicans&apos; predicting doom which more-or-less came true << same for the left.
decimation: there&apos;s a point to this (the idea that the losing party claims &apos;philosophic victory&apos;). but there&apos;s a long tradition of &apos;old republicans&apos; predicting doom which more-or-less came true
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2014 04:06:55; decimation: and this one. http://www.vox.com/2014/9/15/6131919/democrats-and-republicans-really-are-different "And they note that while voters tend to agree with Republicans on the philosophical questions in American politics (should government be smaller?) they tend to agree with Democrats on the policy questions in American politics (like should Social Security be smaller?)."
decimation: Possibly. I get the feeling that republicans tend to be more ideological though
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i kept waiting, in your article, for the link to the canonical classic on the subject ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/924795/posts )
asciilifeform: &apos;However, their voluntary exile was short-lived. This structureless mass of people was incapable of creating a city on the model of that which they had known. Consequently they returned to Rome and after many struggles established themselves as citizens of the Republic. If they were eventually enfranchised, it was that they had become culturally absorbed into Roman society, but for this to be possible the latte
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assbot: BitBet - Republicans win majority of the U.S. Senate :: 1.3 B (58%) on Yes, 0.93 B (42%) on No | closed 1 week 6 days ago
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 17:35:40; asciilifeform: the one common anthropological thread i see here is that most governments insist on some &apos;national&apos; symbolic meaning in their chosen means of execution. e.g., the french guillotine across all five &apos;republics&apos;
decimation: actually the democrats/republicans are quite distinguishable and serve different purposes
decimation: dub: assets is gop sponsored chan << quote from gigantic comment thread in the red/blue post: "You shouldn’t be worried more people of the Red Tribe will start voting for Republicans, Republicans are your best friends, they pacify the Red Tribe. You should be worried when they stop voting Republican and your civil society fractures."
decimation: "“But I have laid out my ideas to create more jobs and grow more wages,” Obama told students at Northwestern University following a high-dollar fundraiser for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. ”A true opposition party should have the courage to lay out theirs. There’s a reason fewer Republicans are preaching doom on deficits – because they’re now manageable.”"
bounce: on that note, next after obamaman will be what, a republican, maybe a tea-partier, and he&apos;ll go make war on whose asses?
decimation: and this one. http://www.vox.com/2014/9/15/6131919/democrats-and-republicans-really-are-different "And they note that while voters tend to agree with Republicans on the philosophical questions in American politics (should government be smaller?) they tend to agree with Democrats on the policy questions in American politics (like should Social Security be smaller?)."
mircea_popescu: greeks, roman republic, roman empire, middle ages, renaissance, industrial revolution, modernity, post modernity
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assbot: The Most Serene Republic, and its laws. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
TheNewDeal: I have only read the first few lines, but what&apos;s this one on http://trilema.com/2014/the-most-serene-republic-and-its-laws/ ?
chetty: In an unusual breach of decorum, even for the divided Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chased Rep. Tom Marino across the House floor, taking offense at comments by the Pennsylvania Republican during debate on the border funding bill Friday night.
asciilifeform: the one common anthropological thread i see here is that most governments insist on some &apos;national&apos; symbolic meaning in their chosen means of execution. e.g., the french guillotine across all five &apos;republics&apos;
mircea_popescu: a) how the fuck are conservatives going to make electoral gains in populist times and b) who the fuck do the republicans even represent anymore, they&apos;ve lost the teaparty.
assbot: BitBet - Republicans win majority of the U.S. Senate :: 1.07 B (71%) on Yes, 0.43 B (29%) on No | closing in 3 months 1 week| weight: 98`238 (100`000 to 1)
assbot: BitBet - Republicans win majority of the U.S. Senate :: 0.77 B (64%) on Yes, 0.43 B (36%) on No | closing in 3 months 1 week| weight: 99`870 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: This Dontesk Republic is basically just like a standard Hollywood sequel to Transndstria i.e. moar explosions
mircea_popescu: but i would guess it&apos;s just some schmuck that realises he doesn&apos;t belong up there, and wants to move into a subordinate position in teh new republic. which... of course.
assbot: Bergdahl release arrangement could threaten the safety of Americans, Republicans say - The Washington Post
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mircea_popescu: but the entire roman republic, pre empire, can be correctly summarized as a set of benches somewhere, and people vying for position on the best bench.
benkay`: "Last year, the government of the Republic of Cyprus imposed the equivalent of a tax on bank deposits, only to see the tax contribute to, rather than reverse, the island’s economic struggles."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete anyway, i was saying that teh yurpeans also had the sort of war-as-a-sporting-event thing, before the french "republic" invented socialism. they worked just fine for evereyone (yes, including those least qualified to form an opinion on the matter).
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre "citizens" is kinda republican codeword neh ?
bounce: leadership isn&apos;t easy to come by, no. random democratic and/or republican countries haven&apos;t managed it in a long time for the usual positions either
ozbot: NationStates | The Most Serene Republic of Bingotonia
mircea_popescu: precisely what the most serene republic amply posessed and widely employed.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones yes. it&apos;s what people were discussing in that log link i gave above. my selection of it, ie http://trilema.com/2014/the-most-serene-republic-and-its-laws/
mircea_popescu: anyway : back then the most serene republica veneta was the us. much in the sense of how back then the bitcoin of the world was the usd.
mircea_popescu: Dolchstoßlegende is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy. Advocates denounced the German government leaders who signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918, as the "November Criminals" (German: Novemberverbrecher).
ThickAsThieves: "At one point during the debate a brawl broke out in which one MP from the opposition Republican People&apos;s Party (CHP) had his nose broken."
mircea_popescu: and yes its mostly the czech republic
mircea_popescu: and also my country, teh most serene republic of bitcoin.
BingoBoingo: Honestly more than million dollar bitcoin, I&apos;m waiting for the republic of Bitcoin to annex Cuba where despite taking an opposite ideological stance to Fidel&apos;s regime this island remains opposed to the USG&apos;s incompetence.
ozbot: Obama&apos;s Disdain For The Constitution Means We Risk Losing Our Republic - Forbes
mircea_popescu: VanCleef you&apos;re not even kidding, i get a lot of (mostly, older, mostly white, mostly male, republican types) very indignant at how they knoiw btc to be a scam
FlyingLeap: "On the weekend, Assange said he admired US libertarian Republicans Ron and Rand Paul, though he expressed concern about their position on issues like abortion."
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