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Its not inherently corrupting
Power is like a magnifying glass for mental and emotional deficiencies
@sigruna14 I wouldn't be too against that, but with our leaders in every corner of the country not representing the people I would not trust them to make that decision, they would elect a Cohen really quick
@Jordan - MD I'm not saying I'm for or against. Just that what Colorado is doing is legal.
There's no measures we can take? No court that we can challenge this in?
The wording of the law makes a difference but there is a legal way to accomplish their intent
I know there are streets to March in, I'm surprised that the rural areas aren't flooding the city streets right now
The measure would be elect a new CO legislature
@Jordan - MD Unless I'm very mistaken, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the states have to consider the will of the people at all in appointing electors. So no. Nothing other than a constitutional amendment.
Wealth and booming cities always multiplies liberals
This is why they want to legalize marijuana everywhere they go, it helps keep the sheep complacent
As much as I'm tactically pro-unitary executive, as time goes on, it seems more and more to me that subsidiarity is going to be part of the answer to our problems. We need to decentralize authority as much as possible, because the worse of our elites have shown their malevolence, and the even the best have shown themselves to be completely impotent.
@Bjorn - MD Article 1 Section 8 was supposed to do just that, but they don't care.
Novel decentralized goverment solutions are now possible given distributed ledger tech
But none have emerged yet
Half the laws Congress makes shouldn't pass constitutional muster without amending the powers of Congress.
I know it's a pipe dream but I would welcome a true populist dictator at this point. These problems are very time-sensitive
Government at most abstract level is a collective action problem which distributive ledger solves
@sigruna14 Hereโs the thing about The Constitution, however. Itโs not a โrestrictiveโ document when it comes to authority it grants the government. Itโs โpermissive.โ It tells the government what it has the authority to do. If itโs not a power granted by The Constitution, in writing, itโs not a power granted by omission.
CPAC is so dull
Check out @ahardtospellโs Tweet: https://twitter.com/ahardtospell/status/1100834951166115846?s=09
@sigruna14 True, but I'm talking *deep* decentralization (referenda, recalls, and the return to a non-federally coopted system of local collective defense).
@Phillip Wiglesworth - FL too bad all real power is vested in SCOTUS. Worst oversight by founders tbh
@Phillip Wiglesworth - FL Tenth Amendment says the states can do anything other than what the Constitution explicitly says they can't or reserves for Congress.
Constitution is kinda dead. What matters is SCOTUS precedent
Have we tried turning America off, waiting 10 seconds, and turning it back on again? I hear that fixes most things
@sigruna14 The States. Not โThe Governmentโ, as in Federal. The States must then have their own individual Constitution. And same rules apply there: they cannot grant themselves power by omission
States can constitutionally do anyting not explicitly forbidden
Or that SCOTUS has not forbidden since SCOTUS is as powerful as constitution
Let our ranks swell. It seems to be our only hope.
Article 1 Section 8 should be amended to remove the "general welfare" clause and move the ability to lay taxes to the end of the section and add the condition that taxes may only be raised directly to fund one of the foregoing powers.
That would, in theory, make a lot of federal overreach a lot harder. They'd have to amend the Constitution every time they wanted to pass some new law.
One day the Millennials will be in the Supreme Court.
God save us all.
Tbh i think USG is a dead horse. Real power was always in media and finance. We need to focus on building our financial and information network.
Money and information can sway a monarcy, much more a democracy
We just need to convince Elon Musk to build us a Starship. I'm telling you.
I'm half kidding but sort of not
@Perihelion - CA the states doing whatever they wanted, not expressly permitted or restricted by the constitution is what started the civil war. Lincoln won that argument. โNo, you canโt. And weโll stop it.โ
So trve
Yeah he stopped it but only proved constitution was dead paper
Agreed
Parrallel society powered by distributed ledger is an intriguing assymtric strategy.
The basic law of war is never play the game your enemy wants to play
Side stepping the whole tangle by building disitributed institutions is one possible solution
Any time your enemy achieves hegemony completely change the game
"Donald Trump was running for president as a publicity stunt and never planned on winning the election"
"Donald Trump colluded with Russia in order to win the election."
Jussie Smollett scriptwriter confirmed ๐๐คฃ๐
Second one is the one i meant to link but first one is good read too
In past wars were over concrete resources. Now culture wars are over abstract values and virtual spaces.
Systematic trolling is an example of neo-barbarism
By constantly changing strategies we can raise cost of maintaining their system toward infinity until theyre forced to abandon their core values
Or we can establish hegemony over a new domain and force them to fight on our prepared terrain
He didnโt want to win at all, but he colluded to ensure heโd win โบ๏ธ
Can you all guess who this famous Irishman is?
Dat nero. He gud boi. He didn du nuffin
@Virgil except for the red hair he kind of looks Roman
People make jokes about the size of Charlie Kirk's head, I finally see it. Man, that thing is huge.
Wow burning women and kids alive is so honorable
don't forget the two dogs they shot
those were _very_ credible dangers
Never forget
The bravery of those domestic terrorists
@Jordan - MD....I dunno, I've never met an Italian who would be caught dead sporting a chinstrap beard and a bowlcut/mullet.
Honestly that hair was pretty common
And it probably looked relatively normal on normal looking people
Nero was just pretty ugly
@Perihelion - CA I like the way you think (distributed solutions and whatnot) ๐
@Virgil Tacitus-post incoming: Romans weren't Proto-Italians ๐
Romans had some big honking noses. Change my mind.
Itโs probably a myth
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@Bjorn - MD......they were tho
Imagine midgets with giant noses conquering everyone...
How you feel imagining that is how gauls felt
Wait until the manlet rebellion at the conference
@Virgil I could be wrong (I'm admittedly not terribly well-versed), but it's my understanding that, while the Italian language came from Vulgar and Classical Latin, and they obviously inherited Catholicism from the Romans, as a population, the Romans were pretty much genetically wiped out. Is that not the case?
What the hell did the Romans look like?
Apparently they looked like me
No doxx
https://youtu.be/57uIcLiOBJM
This will be the intro video played at CPAC. I can think of a few ways weโd improve it
@ExternalPepsi I've heard that they were kind of an Alpine people, with light hair and features. Could be wrong, though.
Iโve heard Roman gene was replaced too. @Bjorn - MD
@Bjorn - MD I believe I read before that the genetics of the Italian penninsula haven't changed in the past 2500 years or so. So the ethnic Italians of today are the same people as the Romans of 2000 years ago, roughly.
Huh. Certainly plausible. I mean, they've always been pretty adjacent to Semitic peoples, whose appearance seems to have remained fairly static over the millennia.
Well, except for the Ashkenazim , Sephardim, and Beta Israel, obviously.
To be fair, the genetic make up of Semitic people has actually changed quite a bit since the Islamic conquests and the Arab Slave Trade and during the time of the Romans, they were more adjacent to pre Islamic Berbers, more so than Semitic people from the Levant/Middle East
You're just determined to anthropology-cuck me all day, aren't you...? ๐
@Virgil: ๐คโ "ACKshually..."
I love these
@Bjorn - MD I admit I'm a bit of a sperg when it comes to the Romans haha
Lol
No worries.
@ThisIsChris Maybe he didn't wanna put any excessive mileage on it, lol.
Northern italians are still related with original romans with some visigoth flava
Southern italy got islam'd (and then normand) pretty hard
Norman conquest of sicily during crusade period is fascinating
@Perihelion - CA Only Sicily and a small part of Calabria were ever conquered by Muslims tho, the rest of Southern Italy was never conquered
Most lasting impact of crusade era was actually conquest of key islands like crete and sicily which opened up trade and empowered italian city states
Southern italy was not conquered but was invaded and slave raided a lot
Norman Gang pull up, we should've conquered France too
Uh, oh. @Virgil's got @Perihelion - CA in the crosshairs, lol.
You bet, I'm on a rampage today lol
>Normans should have conquered France
๐ค
The Normans were the French fam
Northern french if we want to be <:avtism:359037377919844352>
Hence โNormandyโ.
@Perihelion - CA you sound pretty jealous of the Roman nose
Glorious
Imagine not having a Roman nose
I have a Greek nose
Powerful Nose 10/10 would honk
Mine or the Roman guy
My nose
You'd have to post your nose. Is this nose posting hours?
Check out @UN_News_Centreโs Tweet: https://twitter.com/UN_News_Centre/status/1101158367832272897?s=09
not going to lie to you, you're looking pretty hot
Do you have the nose of an attractive Greek Lady
Idk if nose posting would doxx or not
This is pretty close to what my Roman nose looks like
Heh
Itโs beautiful
Just registered for classes. Iโm taking a course on Human Behavioral Ecology
Take a class on noses
Bibi may be indicted on bribery charges
***DERAILING CONVERSATION*** Hey IE, can you run 1.5 miles in 9mins flat? Cuz I can baby
@Virgil wait actually?
Yes
@FACINEMA Why would you ever want to do that?
Epic
@Bjorn - MD Because I need to stay in shape. Especially for the job im applying too
minimum requirement is to run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
Are you applying for the olympics
If weโre sharing busts that look like us
Doxx
My man nero
@DixieBoy76 - KY Nope! Even better
Ummm sweaty
and I could never ever do the olympics
Thatโs germanicus
@FACINEMA Yeah, I figured. Just bein' cheeky. Easy on the joints, though... <:nervous:359009898115104770>
The sideburns confused me
After doing cross country in highschool im cool with never running again
Same family though
@FACINEMA The chad underbite.
@Bjorn - MD I dont run every day
Donโt you do that to Carlos II of Spain!
Only on days it feels like diversity is nearby
Lol
I can do 2 miles in 13 on a good day lol
I forgot that these statues were originally painted
Same with a lot of cathedrals
ONCE, I did two miles in 16:28, and I could feel my soul trying to leave my body...
Real life bust of Augustus
Its awesome knowing they were painted
Wait I meant Caligula
I used to do a 5k in 19 minutes, never again
@Virgil Nah, breddy sure that's Josephus...
@Bjorn - MD art thou a fatty?
@Andrew-KY That's disgusting.
Not a fan of the painted statues and cathedrals but then again my house/wardrobe are almost exclusively cream/beige/tan...
Synthian?
Its not that bad once you have been running for a season. Had a guy on my team who could do them in 16
@Bjorn - MD Already posted that bust, fam
Dang
@FACINEMA Intermittently, though in the processing of reforming. Dropped ~50 pounds since joining, and I'm getting ready to start hitting the weights pretty soon, probably after the conference. I have a tall frame, and I'm in the normal range for body fat and BMI, verging on fitness ๐
If you want utility cardio carrying heavy weights long distances over rough Terrain is probably a more real life
@FACINEMA We met a Defend the Rockies, lol.
@DixieBoy76 - KY Phrygian cap hours.
Nice
I'm at the point nearly all color apart from nature is gaudy
Neutral gang
@missliterallywho with the controversial takes
โA more colorful Ancient Greeceโ
*shows statue of Augustus*
@Bjorn - MD Liberty cap hours
@StormySeaShore I was wondering the same thing
It is funny that the romans never learned how to balance their statues like the Greeks did
They all have those ugly struts
Unfortunate
@StormySeaShore the current state of education shows when people think Roman statues are greek
@Aaron O'regan Sad!
@DixieBoy76 - KY it is and it's intentional too
They want to dumb us down
Regarding European history
Yep
They reach the heck out of foreign histories
Itโs where the โwhite people have no cultureโ fallacy comes from
Imo
I wish we still had the massive statue of Saturn
It was hollow
And theyโd fill it with olive oil
Pretty dope
Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. Also those who don't know their history clearly don't care about their heritage and national identity.
That's why they teach about foreign histories
To make us care about outsiders more than ourselves
Call it human history instead of keeping the histories separate
I am in the worst history class I have ever taken in my life.
Africana history 101?
I am going to lobby for her dismissil
Nah world history
I spent a semester and like 3k just to learn that Africa is a continent not a country
Yep world history
Not Chinese or European history but world history
Are your teachers foreign?
but the professor lies, saying that the only time india was not unified was under British rule
yes
she cannot speak, publicly or English
Is she from India?
American history is taught pretty badly - Parks, King, and Douglass greatly overshadow much more important figures
no, I believe china
American history after the Founding Fathers is taught from the viewpoint of โthe oppressedโ
^
women, immigrants, minorities, and socialists
@Nemets >Parks, King, and Douglass were important figures ๐
Well, I guess that if, by "figures," we mean memes, then that's true. They certainly weren't agents of history, though.
@Nemets that was my English class I just took.
@Bjorn - MD IM SORRY IM BAD WITH FACES
I'M STILL OFFENDED.
like, incredibly embarassingly bad at recognizing people
Lol
BUT EVERYONE REMEMBERS ME WHICH IS ANNOYING AF
I'm not exactly the life of the party, so it's whatevs, bruh ๐
Them-'Oh Hi Facinema!"
Me-"Hi there....... you!"
Lol
One of those faces, I guess...
It should be one of the one of our first orders of business upon taking power, legally and with due process, to forcibly restrict Michael Moore to a daily ration 1,500 calories a day for the rest of his life.
Whats the opinion here on sparring?
@Winston-CA As in MMA or fencing?
boxing
I would assume only weirdos hate fencing. Its the chad sport
Oh. Prolly wanna protect yer noggin, but if it's your thing, more power to ya ๐
I can't afford the loss of any brain cells, lol.
yeah I need to invest in some head gear, I just do it the park with some friends
Ive done fencing and boxing. If I had to choose a sport, it would be fencing that I prefer
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