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"Liberalism can provide a common ground, a least common denominator, for many states in one international organization in a way that nationalism, by i...

I don't know if you have access to jstor, but there's a good article on there called The Post-Modern State, by James Kurth

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:grin: Talking about the US government and industry, in 2001 there was an anti-trust case against Microsoft which echoed another such case in 1984, wh...

Oh good. Schopenhauer said there's no solution period. I think that's correct.

I was just commenting that "big business" usually refers to manufacturing, not finance. Are you going to evolve into one of those brain dead leftist p...

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Note that while you referred to "big business" the hypothesis under examination is about financial institutions. "Big business" historically refers to...

But states also provide defense for the community, a sense of identity, merchant law, incarceration of criminals, social services, etc. Why would you ...

What is the state exactly? Could we have rule of law without one? Do we want rule of law?

Could be. It'll be a talking point for Democrats until they pass something that works. They'll probably start transport assistance for poor people, fr...

Congress will pass a law shortly.

But the Normans were provoked by various Englishmen who shipwrecked on their shore.

Between burning people's crops and cutting everybody's hands off, they brought civilization.

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Lukashenko says nuclear weapons are a bad idea. "It is also unacceptable because it might knock our terrestrial ball flying off the orbit to who knows...

I think I'm going to cover my countertops with metal tape. Being human is basically a matter of walking around with a flood of wacky ideas flowing thr...

Maybe it was "plane." Like if you fly to Spain, it will rain on your plane.

I heard the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

More fetal cancer.

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Sounds good to me.

11% of atheists are pro life. So it's not necessarily a religious view. Nevertheless, if a portion of the community is crying "murder," it's your busi...

You're suggesting she isn't qualified (as your eyes glaze over and you fall forward).

:yikes: It never works that way. Abortion is either murder or it's not. If it is, it's everybody's business.

I agree. We don't screen voters for their justifications. You're a citizen, you get a vote.

Yes. It was that the connection to the labor movement oiled the tracks for an amendment, not that that was the primary wind behind it.

Sure. But if some Americans firmly believe abortion is murder, that matters. Their opinion shouldn't be brushed aside in the name of someone's privacy...

Some historian I read said that Prohibition was really about the fact that bars were often the meeting places for organizing labor.

I would say no. Plenty say it is. When people have a difference of opinion about whether an action is moral, that makes it a public issue. I've never ...

I don't know what you're talking about.

This is incorrect. Laws and constitutional amendments are the mechanisms for cementing the will of the people. Roe comes from an era when it was thoug...

Ok. Autocracy usually arises due to crisis. We instinctively know that during a crisis we're better off with a leader who can make quick decisions, wh...

I said: I think that's about right.

If you discover that you were born with a genius for manipulating people, I advise that you don't use it at all because if you think you have the wisd...

Could you make this question a little more explicit?

Oh. 1. Probably most fundamentally, democracy fosters a mindset of ownership of the challenges faced by my society. This is our world. We have the abi...

Numerous reasons. That's a historical, cultural, and psychological question. If your point is that it's flawed, sure I agree with that.

That's true. To be truly devoted to democracy means you can allow the people to make mistakes (Donald Trump). You don't abandon the system just becaus...

I asked fdrake this question. He said it's because international news is usually dominated by whatever the US is doing. It's not like they go out seek...

Was there a point you were trying to make? Or did you just want a window on my psyche?

There's no reason they ought to be devoted. They just are at present. That may change in the future.

Generally speaking, Americans have a deep seated devotion to democracy. Are you asking why that is?

The "should" comes from a particular community's commitment to democracy. It's not for everyone.

What alternative do you propose?

In a democracy, the majority (with temperance provided by various mechanisms) rules.

Of course. It's called democracy.

Fair Housing Act

If the people judge that murder is taking place in private, then it's most definitely a governmental issue.

Whether they want abortion in their communities.