politics
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The Precipice Year: 2024
I really don’t want to end up writing long form political posts all the time. In fact, I deeply resent having to spend so much time following politics, at all. I dream of an America with a boring, boring Politics. But, in this era of the ‘Industrial Disinformation Complex’, one kind of has to become Continue reading
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New England Townships
Some ‘Yankee’ wisdom (via de Tocqueville)… Each individual is therefore considered to be as enlightened, as virtuous, as strong as any of his fellows. Ok. This means that we can do whatever we want, right…? He obeys society, not at all because he is inferior to those who direct it, or less capable than another Continue reading
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John Adams, small-r ‘republican’…
A little quote I ran into from ~1776: The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society, Continue reading
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FFS. This Crap, Again…
So: Jack Teixera. D’affaire Snowden was about ten years ago, oddly enough. It was a very different political climate at the time: Trump was still just “a celebrity”. The ongoing War on Terror, initially started by GWB and his GOP a decade before, was now associated with Democrats in general and with Obama in particular. Continue reading
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