The growing threat of right wing terrorism
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Fogdog
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Umm, he didn't say that
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401703_pf.html
It is a word designed to rile, implying as it does that the people are not only (a) stupid, but (b) stupid in a collective cow-herd sense. (Americans would always rather be stupid in an independent way. It's a rugged-individualism thing.)
Perhaps proving this very cow-herdedness, however, many have tried to suggest our system of government is all mobbed up by brandishing a Thomas Jefferson quote: "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
Sorry, guys. The esteemed founder never said it. The folks at Monticello's research library witheringly say that old saw has been dogging him for years.
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/democracy-nothing-more-mob-rule
Earliest known appearance in print: 2004[1][2]
Other attributions: None known.
Status: We currently have no evidence to confirm that Thomas Jefferson ever said or wrote, "Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%" or any of its listed variations. We do not know the source of this statement's attribution to Thomas Jefferson.
bearkat42
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Ouch!
Padawanbater2
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You sound like the kind of person who would vote for Donald Trump
abandonconflict
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Not implying that. Something I always hate is when I express a desire to dive someplace and another diver pisses on that by saying there is something wrong with the place. At the same time though it is good to be aware of these things.
abandonconflict
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I don't really care what a slave owner thought about democracy.
Fogdog
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Fogdog
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Too funny that
Fogdog
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On a google search, I found this "quote", first found in print in 2004, all over the right wing blogs. Too funny that. Also, I pissed off psi and he put me on ignore, so he doesn't know.
bearkat42
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Ignore? What is this, 5th grade?On a google search, I found this "quote", first found in print in 2004, all over the right wing blogs. Too funny that. Also, I pissed off psi and he put me on ignore, so he doesn't know.
PsicloneX
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unbased (ʌnˈbeɪst)
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not having a base or basis
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Just establishing a base .
abandonconflict
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This isn't fucking Starcraft but if it was, sorry, you do not have enough vespene gas.
PsicloneX
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It no longer matters who is elected . I doubt I will vote .We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats who write rules and levy fines .I don't think there is anyone running on the lets destroy the federal government and burn Washington DC to the ground ticket .But if there is he is my guy .
PsicloneX
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Padawanbater2
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What matters is money in politics and the power wealthy individuals and corporations have over government, you fix that and you fix the biggest issue of corruption in America
Fogdog
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bearkat42
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Fogdog
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you got me laughing pretty good there, thanks
PsicloneX
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That money corruption power matrix has been around since fluff was a kitten and it isnt going away . There in no political system that is free of the scourge of human nature . The best the people can hope for is equal justice under the law .Warning , we do not have a justice system we have a legal system .