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Marcus Aurelius

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  1. On 1/21/2019 at 12:02 PM, Jhawk said:

    I did not know that about her status in the party.  She's young, attractive, military service, etc.  If you're looking for energy, she is a reasonable face of the party that isn't off the rails to the left or too centrist (I would think).  She would smoke any repub in love for the military so that takes away a talking point.  She's a young woman so the dems can continue to harp on "old white men".  If the party would put time and money into her PR then she would be a slam dunk I thought.  As a conservative, she would be someone I would NOT fear in ruining the country so I would see over the top attack ads as blasphemy and out of touch.  Which would turn me off to a republican candidate and maybe get me to stay home.  However if someone like Clinton or AOC or Warren were running then I would absolutely see attack ads as true and it would get me up to go to the polls.  A candidate like Tulsi could lull the opposition to sleep I guess is what I'm saying.

     

    Lol were you in a coma for the entirety of the 2004 election? The right wing propaganda machine made a decorated Vietnam vet out to be an anti-military pussy while a guy who had his daddy get him into the champagne unit at the national guard was apparently the second coming of Patton. There will never be any way to "take away" a right wing talking point because they are completely unmoored from any semblance of reality. The Dems could nominate the most milquetoast bloodless inoffensive centrist and Republicans would screech that (s)he is the next coming of Mao. Its laughable that people actually think the Dems could ever do anything to blunt attacks from the right

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  2. 5 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    You are correct, I was unaware of that, but still seems relatively small and short-lived.  Also somewhat undercuts the notion that the Chinese were not warlike.

     

    And as with gunpowder, Chinese invented the compass, made some use of it, then sort of seemingly abandoned it at least as a marine instrument.  Why did they turn inward?

    In addition to the previous responses, I want to add that the Chinese didnt have as much of an incentive to explore the world as the Europeans did. The fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans resulted in western Europe being cut off from lucrative trade routes that used to be open. This was the main impetus behind Portugal and Spain´s exploration campaigns as they wanted to find a way to circumvent the Ottomans.This is why Columbus was looking for India after all. In short, a big reason why (but not the only one) the new world wasnt conquered by China or the Ottoman Empire is because they really didnt have a pressing economic need to do so because they were already situated along the prime trading routes. China also had a good thing going with their tribute system in which their neighbors were economically subordinate.

    Theres an interesting theory that the Confucian principles imbedded in Chinese society may have contributed to restraining the desire for overseas explorations versus the Christian ethos of spreading the gospel but I´m not to well versed in that department.

     

     

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  3. 14 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I like Bernie and some of his ideas but as long as he doesn’t get the nomination, I’ll be satisfied.  Actually, I’d prefer he didn’t run for several reason.  

    1.  He’s not a real democrat and a stones throw away from a Trump on the left. (Populist that makes unrealistic policy proposals).

    2. He has the 2016 election stink on him.  

    3.  He’s not vocal enough about the Russian interference which he benefited from.  He still hasn’t come out and said, “I reject any support from the Russians government I might have inadvertently received in the past and I don’t want any help from the Kremlin in the future.” Saying something like that would go a long way, even today.

    4.  He’s over the hill. If You think Joe Biden is too old, Bernie is older by a year.  Don’t get me wrong, America needs someone with experience and wisdom but not a guy in his late 70s.

    1. Not being a real Democrat counts as a plus in my book. And does being a Trump on the left mean actually winning in the general?

    2. Eh, I'm not sure how big of a deal this is

    3. The average voter doesn't give a fuck about Russia. If the Democracts run in 2020 on this Russia shit then they are even dumber than I thought.

    4. Agreed.

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