Mark Gates

[Mark Gates @MarkOldGate]

@KatKanada_TM @farmingandJesus I think the Catholics get the worse of a nuanced biblical argument.
But what should be indisputable is that the no marriage rule kept a lid on corruption.

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@charlesmurray Assuming the key asset of a president in the 21st century is the ability to act while under siege from the bureaucracy, intel, the media, NGOs and the UN, Scott Walker comes to mind.

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@instapundit So, is the expression neutral, like the ghetto vernacular, "give me some more of that shit"?
Or is it critical, suggesting a continuing list of bad things?

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@JohnRad15 @seconds_0 TBF, the Wampanoag of 1520 seem like a pretty good tribe. The Powhatan of 1520 do not.
And that's our sample size of English initial contact: a dozen tribes or fewer; a one decade slice of history; a perspective limited to diplomatic contact between leaders.

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I am not going to get into the game of whether there was one tribe with a great social structure. My knowledge is too limited.
I am going to say that every time I hear a story of a great tribe, the person telling me the story also has limited knowledge, without a corresponding limit on his confidence.

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@JohnRad15 @seconds_0 I have heard a lot of "noble savage" fairy tales. They usually depend on wishful thinking and a lack of written history. And they usually break down once we understand the history better. Incas and Aztecs were not enlightened, egalitarian societies.

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And how do you think those emigrants would have voted?
Canada is in danger of creating a democratic death spiral like Detroit (1950-1975) or San Francisco (2015-2030).
The less productive 55% are encouraged to vote for resentment against the more productive 45%. The most productive leave. The balance shifts to 56-44 and the policies double-down.

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@JohnRad15 @seconds_0 In the Europe of 1200, 3/4 of the population were serfs, before they started taking on the freer positions of wage laborers or free tenant farmers.
In the USSR of 1950, 3/4 of the population compelled without in their labour.
Capitalism was the rest in the middle.

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@JohnRad15 @seconds_0 Capitalism is the alternative to slavery. But keep trying.

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@seconds_0 Or biology. Or math.

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@junonewscom Is this AI? Because those photos look like AI.

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@teachthemx3 70%? Around here it's 50%.

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@martycus @PierrePoilievre As expected, Poilievre will turn a frivolous question back to a substantial issue.

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@pronounced_kyle Sounds like owning an HP is a situation not to get yourself in.

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@KevinRobertsTX @JohnCornyn Even among Democrats, about 2/3 support the SAVE act. Imagine having to explain that you voted against it.

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@KevinRobertsTX @JohnCornyn It seems to me that getting senators on record as against the SAVE act is an excellent way to win the midterms.

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@CollinRugg @grok, how much does Alyssa Thomas earn per game?

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@Doc_aka_Rich @Sierra_rak If you abandon state ownership of the means of production, you are no longer doing a straightforward socialism.
You are doing a modified form of socialism called fascism.

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@Sierra_rak In theory and in practice.

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@TheHistoryOfTh2 @kampeas @CathyYoung63 "accelerated by MAGA"?
That kind of willful blindness is how we end up as class enemies.

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@cbrennansports How is this not criminal battery?