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One of the Rep attack lines today was to question why Vindman, a decorated Army officer, appeared in uniform for the hearing.
 
It is standard protocol for Army officers to be in uniform when engaging in official duties. A Congressional hearing counts as official duties.
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We could also have a still Falangist Spain too. Or at least, one that stuck with it longer or ended it more bloodily. If we’re going to start second-guessing history, that is.
And looking at the US, it’s hard to see how republican democracies are somehow superior…
 
This doesn’t detract from how monarchies are still, whether or not they came in on Fascist support from a Democratic revolution, or dissolved the same fascist dictatorship: antithetical to democratic principles.
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The US is doing a fine job of wrecking its own democracy.
 
The US proves Plato horrifyingly right about how democratic societies have a tendency to decay from their pure state, to not so much.
 
Just, like: kill Bezos and collectivize Amazon. Achieve true democracy, de-limit it!
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At the hard end of theory - but in practice, a monarchy can be a far truer democracy then many republics.
 
Of course, there are also various implied questions like “what is true democracy anyway, and is it even necessarily a good thing?”
 
 
 
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The current turmoil will pass. And it doesn’t have much to do with Russia or China anyway.
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Meh, as far as I’m concerned, Felipe, Elizabeth, Willem-Alexander, Philippe, Margrethe, Harald, Carl Gustaf and the others I may have missed can keep their crowns. Given how almost all of them are reigning over constitutional monarchies, it’s not like they’re the main danger for their countries’ democracy nowadays (and I’d keep any of them as head of state over Donald Trump anyway)…
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At least we don’t have to worry about Ben Ali, Robert Mugabe or Omar al-Bashir anymore (although AFAIK the jury’s still out as of whether their successors will be any better).
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At the hard end of theory - but in practice, a monarchy can be a far truer democracy then many republics.
Of course, there are also various implied questions like “what is true democracy anyway, and is it even necessarily a good thing?”
 
Not really. As a center piece of government or even at the forefront of national image, as a representative of the nation: what are they representing? Democratic process has oft been considered important if because it means the capacity to represent the national will. And while they exist, serve as functionaries of the government, and take out an allowance from the government, what are they really doing?
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It’s hard to get a good discussion in here without someone raising up a stink every few posts.
 
There’s being worried and then there’s panicking to the point of uninformed paranoia.
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Representing continuity, even while the democratic government is responsive to change. To remove them, especially without some breach of the long-standing constitutional contract on their part, would to many sever a nation from it’s roots. And it’s not like there aren’t many even less accountable old money familes about - no need to remove the last responsibilities from some.
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COPPA, if enforced as they claim they will, is going to kill Youtube. And pretty much every other content host based in the US. Not because the sites themselves will be targeted - there’s too many human shields in the way - but because nobody will be able to make content anymore without risking bankruptcy.
 
The act is just Way. Too. Broad.
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