Highspeed rail is B$it

[Jibartik]

Let’s not forget it’s the military industrial complex that trained Osama bin Laden an armed the Taliban to keep us secure from the Russians.

Thank God we have liberals making sure that Guantánamo Bay is never shut down…

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[Danth]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shareholdership arose from pirate boat contracts, non?

Insofar as I know pirate share-holding derived from the common use of divided shares in commercial sailing ship interests during the age of sail.

Danth

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What about the Whiskey Rebellion? The USA was "really a thing" by then.

When you invent something the world has never seen before, do you get it perfect on the first try? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nah, East India Company , possibly the originalest biggest baddest corp is why USA exists ...
source:
I made it up

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[Jibartik]

Yeah and without this great system we couldn’t have outlawed abortion.

And contraception soon.

In 2022.

And set up the Cold War part two this time with russsia AND china.

After our consumer driven society literally built the military for both of those world powers.

You’re right this experiment is working.

[magnetaress]

in the past 100 years ppl lived without electricity and internet we had high speed (for the time) rail tho )

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah and without this great system we couldn’t have outlawed abortion.

And contraception soon.

In 2022.

And set up the Cold War part two this time with russsia AND china.

After our consumer driven society literally built the military for both of those world powers.

You’re right this experiment is working.

Again, humans suck. There's no magic way to make them not suck. But democracy as a system makes them suck less.

Without democracy we'd be killing each other over abortion, instead of having non-violent protests, public discussions, and ultimately peaceful elections over it.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Again, humans suck. There's no magic way to make them not suck. But democracy as a system makes them suck less.

Without democracy we'd be killing each other over abortion, instead of having non-violent protests, public discussions, and ultimately peaceful elections over it.

We're not talking about democracy dude. I already told you that.

We're talking about capitailsm/consumerism/global miltary industrial complex.

Right now you are literally defining democracy as: capitailsm/consumerism/global miltary industrial complex.

Nobody here has said the word democracy except you, and me saying "I'm not talking about democracy, those exist long before America and all over the world"

[magnetaress]

Adversity makes humans better [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

Consumerism in place of it makes us worse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

Assuming that the consumer driven society of the west is superior to the less developed cultures of the world is literally colonialism lol