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@voder Oct 16, 2019, 11:53 PM UTC

Kurds and Catalonians get the Federalist stick (no carrot provided)

Studies of Federalism for me really started this summer in a Virginia bookstore with a $2 copy of the Federalist Papers. Then through openlibrary.org I found a number of other works from the 1776-178…

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@voder Oct 14, 2019, 7:18 PM UTC

A few words about Syria

So Orange-Man-Bad has successfully started to limit foreign wars. I called it, two years ago. When Erdogan said he was heading for Manbij (Jan 2018), clearly the route was on. (EDIT: Ismail Coskun WS…

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@voder Oct 12, 2019, 8:07 PM UTC

Virginia

James Madison as a junior congressman from Virginia, wrote half of the Federalist Papers. He was experiencing significant backlash among his constituents and to justify his 1789 vote he needed to exp…

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@voder May 2, 2019, 3:00 AM UTC

The Statist Divide

To protect your pharmaceutical induced delusions, you'll be wise to cut me off early. If you want to believe in something like government protection or democratic socialism, don't ever get close. If…

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@voder Jan 18, 2019, 3:42 AM UTC

Do the right thing, or keep your job?

In the nineteen forties, some people did horrific things for reasons of self preservation. To kept their jobs (and not be jailed themselves) they murdered others because orders. I'm sure it happened…

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@voder Nov 12, 2018, 3:08 AM UTC

California Fires update, forest management and 8 original photos of America

The day after the smoke inversion gave us that orange sky, the particles apparently descended to our level. Although today air quality is way better than Friday, its hard to say how much. The van is…

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@voder Nov 10, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

California Fires - 13 original images, Nov 8 2018

We saw the cloud roll in. At first it seemed like fog, then a brown cast became subtly visible. Looked again minutes later and the whole world had changed. If I had any idea this was about to happen,…

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@voder Oct 29, 2018, 9:29 PM UTC

Socialism and the Means of Production

Gallup just released a poll regarding modern perspectives on socialism. (link) One question allowed respondents to mention government ownership of the means of production. Implications in a minute, f…

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@voder Oct 18, 2018, 10:54 AM UTC

Questions for democratic socialists

The DNC just tried to stop the appointment of Kavenaugh with 40 year old accusations (that pale in comparison to Bill's) and thus missed the opportunity to question him about the 4th amendment, searc…

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@voder Oct 3, 2018, 1:14 AM UTC

Love is a weapon - How people reflect their government

A professor was big on culture and spoke of athenian theatre between dative conjugations. A mask on a stick was the performer's means to portray the character; the mask was the persona. Acting as a p…

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