******Official politics thread ******

[mickmoranis]

Democrats in california want to succeed from the USA but they think libertarians that want states rights are stupid.

[mickmoranis]

dmocrats think they can spell better on forums but remind me how your president and healthcare is doing? oh yea.

[mickmoranis]

u dont know what u believe tbh

[mickmoranis]

What is wrong with nationalism?

[Lune]

Most repulsive meatwad of a President since Taft?

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tell us,,,

[bigjerry]

you can really see the combover technique in taht photo. i am having a hard time imagining how he pulls that off.

[AzzarTheGod]

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Most repulsive meatwad of a President since Taft?

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tell us,,,

A lot of the issues were very similar but then again we have sort of repeated history every decade or so since the industrial revolution and stock market explosion. I don't know how Trump compares to Taft politically but I did find this defining quote from Taft

Originally Posted by Taft

His health gradually declined over the near-decade of his chief justiceship, and he wrote in 1929, "I am older and slower and less acute and more confused. However, as long as things continue as they are, and I am able to answer to my place, I must stay on the court in order to prevent the Bolsheviki from getting control"

Its interesting that there was always this looming threat of socialism/workers party reforms being passed after the industrial revolution, as viewed by the establishment, and there were always people literally fighting on their deathbed to prevent it.

But whether they were fighting Marxism or socialism isn't something you can figure at first glance. You'd need to be a historian on the subject in order to determine whether they were fighting Marxists or socialists-- maybe to them it was all the same.

My guess is socialism was smeared under Marxism. Today we have more of a separation of the two.

[maerilith]

Twerk it baby.

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[bigjerry]

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A lot of the issues were very similar but then again we have sort of repeated history every decade or so since the industrial revolution and stock market explosion. I don't know how Trump compares to Taft politically but I did find this defining quote from Taft



Its interesting that there was always this looming threat of socialism/workers party reforms being passed after the industrial revolution, as viewed by the establishment, and there were always people literally fighting on their deathbed to prevent it.

But whether they were fighting Marxism or socialism isn't something you can figure at first glance. You'd need to be a historian on the subject in order to determine whether they were fighting Marxists or socialists-- maybe to them it was all the same.

My guess is socialism was smeared under Marxism. Today we have more of a separation of the two.

wowow no wonder "he's fat" is all the common core/you know whoish matrix remembers about Taft. ill be reposting this to /r/TIL

[entruil]

http://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/a...ecurity-state/

By the 1960s [J. Edgar] Hoover had become one of the most powerful political figures in America, thanks chiefly to his ability to use the FBI’s notorious Division Five (successively named the National Defense Division, the Security Division, and the Domestic Intelligence Division) to intimidate, blackmail, or destroy the careers of people who were not accused of any crime, but whom he deemed to be dangerous.

I also defined the deep state somewhat restrictively, as an unrepresentative “restricted locus of top-down power,” or as a parallel “hard-edged coalition,” consisting primarily of the covert agencies (like the CIA) that are “responsive … to the overworld, but with little or no other public constituency.”