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Yes, indeed. And Franklin knew we would have trouble retaining control. 500 years of Brit history told him that keeping the govt from over-reaching and ~ruling~ us rather than serving was problematic because govts are made of people who will always reach for more. More taxes, more rules, more of what belonged to someone else and always decided questionable issues in their own favor and at the expense of the rabble.

Originally, “voters” were those who had a stake in the system, as in property owners. That is a reflection of the times. It’s always wrong to judge history by today’s values unless you acknowledge the intervening events that ALLOWED us to rise to higher standards. There were a lot of black slaves; so many that if they were allowed to vote, or an equal vote, the slave holders would have instructed their slaves exactly how they wanted them to vote, and the south would have dominated the Union. Without granting the 3/5ths vote for slaves the south would not have joined the north to form the Union.

Remember, Quakers were instrumental in the settling and founding of the country and stood against slavery. At the same time, the south’s economic basis was entirely dependent upon slavery for labor. These are two mutually-exclusive principles. Both north & south wanted to be free of Britain and needed to accommodate the other to arrive at a compromise that would work. It still took 6 years to create and sign the Constitution after the Brits resigned at Yorktown.
And, another 70 years and 500,000 casualties to end slavery. Nothing is easy.

It’s up to the voters to enforce our will on the govt. Unfortunately, instead of north & south having mutually exclusive interests, it’s now Dems & GOP. The issues are different, but the gap is just as wide, or wider. It gets worse; there is a personal distain between us & them now, and that’s not likely to change soon. The Palestinian demonstrators are a product of our education system that we Trumpers want to see put asunder. The education system is a tool and child of the left and is staunchly defended by the Dems. That’s an immovable object versus an irresistible force, again. The Dems have loaded the govt with partisans who have hired partisan subordinates, who have hired more partisans such that the vast majority of govt workers, especially those with regulatory authority and guns, are available to use as a tool to further the Dem values and goals. The CIA is forbidden from operating inside the USA, but investigate GOP citizens. The DOJ, IRS, FBI, et al are all being used as weapons to pursue GOP and conservative citizens and ignore BLM, Biden & Family, Islamic protest instigators & left leaning educators, Chinese spies and illegal Chinese surveillance of Chinese immigrants and students, the thousands of Chinese & Islamic men of military age taking advantage of the wide open border, and instead spending their time investigating parents who argue with local board of education about egregious breaches of moral authority in kindergartens and school libraries.

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I suppose I sound like a scaredy-cat worried that CCP will attack us tomorrow. They’re probably more scared of us than we them; they’re relatively new to the arms race and cold war, but we’re old hands. That doesn’t mean we necessarily have the upper hand, it does mean we’re armed to the teeth and have in-place the wherewithal to make CCP & the old CCCP a radioactive glass plain and MAD is forever. They know it; we know it; they know we know they know it and nobody is backing down or letting the bombs fly without suffering badly, so we’re relatively safe from world destruction except if a madman enters who is in charge somewhere starts something. Most dictators who are smart enough to rise to that level of power like or love power enough to not want to give it up that way. But, there are no guarantees.

China may or may not have an advantage of newer concepts and better weapons; they have an Army the size of the rest of the world combined, plus a lot, but that’s old school and while it’s a rich defense and nobody is likely to invade a country with a 9,000,000 man standing Army within an eminently defensible mountain countryside where the locals have all the key higher ground staked out, that size Army is useless as a WWII –type attacking force elsewhere. Large size massed military units have a modern name: a target rich environment. They are hard to hide from bombers. They need to eat, too, so they are not without constant, significant cost.

CCP can and will continue to try to achieve world dominance via gobbling up small countries economically and then muscling them around. They are good at that. It’s the new colonization. That’s not free and easy, either, as they are finding out. The old Brit, French. Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, et al gave up their colonies as not worth the candle, but the CCP thinks they can just indebt them, strip the wealth, and maybe move on. That worked back when gold and silver was there to plunder, but what’s left is not as rich, or as desirable because the costs of maintaining social order falls to the occupier. It always did and the old Empires granted independence and exited, usually at the point of guns because cost exceeded value.

The CCP is stripping poorer South American & African countries of so-called rare earth minerals in the most 17th Century manner of production; -using up the locals already short life-spans with hand labor outlawed as inhumane 200 years ago. Unfortunately for all, the EV craze is drawing to a close and 2,000 lb. car batteries will be passé, soon. That leaves unpaid and unpayable the indebtedness incurred by those backward countries. The CCP is therefore going to be a debtor in-possession with nobody wanting to step forward and buy the assets at any price. It will be an ongoing duplicate of the giant empty residential towers financial rat-holes all over China, redux. The commies will never learn that mere possession of assets is not wealth; people working for their own gain produces wealth, and when there is a surplus you can tax it. No surplus, no nada. Forced labor produces relative peanuts. If it worked to build wealth, prisons would pay for themselves. Have they ever?

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Yes and no! If you mean Tyrannical government, then yes, but when the constitution was written there was not yet a Federal Government, states still had sovereign rights.

Doesn’t need to! The language is pretty clear and is color blind when addressing the “We the People” part.

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Of course it is and an apathetic public is not going to do anything about it. The reality is, things have to hit zero before another movement (revolution) rises to the occasion.

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If I put myself in the shoes of these what you call “founding fathers,” they have not forgotten about the “king” and the presence of the Brits who might invade any time they get the chance. Of course I can’t speak for them, but Britain was the super-power then, something that has to be reckoned with.

I sure hope so. Hydrogen cars should be the answer but somehow there isn’t much money to make out of thin air, so to speak.

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The US government has never been our friends nor serves the people it’s suppose to represent. It’s become a private club of grifters, and traitors selling out their country while at the same time enriching themselves. See Nancy the cunt Pelosi!

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1088

The US inherited the empire jewel from Great Britain and now it’s a crumbling vestige and a shattered legacy. Wait for more war, it’s coming soon.

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1089

So why are we so concerned with how one votes ? It appears it really doesn’t matter .

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One tiny correction: tsunami does indeed mean harbor wave in Japanese, but you’re interpreting that wrong. The harbor part is the effect of the water rising as it encounter land masses that funnel the wave, which is a flat sort of bump at sea, into a smaller and smaller water area trapped on both sides by fingers of land. There are millions of such shore features along the Japanese coasts and the unstoppable wave increases in height maximally as it is squished into anything resembling two arms reaching out into the sea. It’s really maximized along a mountainous coastline where two steep cliffs stick out forming an otherwise very protected harbor. There, 10 or 15 foot walls of water come in at 50 or 100 miles an hour. Like a squirt bottle, the tighter and smaller the coastline funnel, the higher and faster the water travels. The taper of the bottom matters greatly, too, with the same effects as the narrowing walls increasing the speed. Video of the Nakashima wave looked pretty tame because it came over a wide open shoreline and the bottom drop-off tapered gradually out to sea (but not like the Gulf of Mexico.)

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I don’t like the fact that the Japanese forced users of other languages to change their terms to Japanese. Certainly “tidal waves” in English is wrong, but “harbor wave” isn’t any better because tsunami can strike beaches which are not harbors as well.

Why not Norwegian flodbĂžlge (flood wave) or Korean hae-il (rising sea)? Maybe the latter is more accurate.

As Russia threatened Britain with a huge artificial tsunami as a retaliation for its folly, tsunamis can easily be triggered by a large blast in the sea, nuke or otherwise. Or maybe a large chunk of ice and landslide falling into the sea.

As you know, the North Sea today was a flat land during the Ice Age (a term which is not accurate because we still live in an Ice Age), prone to tsunamis because of its proximity to the extensive glaciers of Norway where large chunks of ice frequently fell into the Atlantic Ocean.

As you watch some of the videos of the tsunami from 2011, there were no “waves” to speak of. Instead, the sea rose quietly, overflooding the street and then the entire low-lying parts of the city.

Incidentally, we are presented with videos of towering glaciers of Greenland reaching the sea as an “evidence of global warning.” Au contraire, more glaciers mean more snowfall in the highlands of Greenland.

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There are so many words in every language that are untranslatable straight across that just substituting word-for-word doesn’t work on a large percentage of sentences. Language within a society devolves into terms of art that are very explicit in one dialect, and confusing or entirely meaningless in another. The slang of the UK is very different than that of the US. Brits use “sorting” as Yanks would use “figuring out or taking care of” and lots of other terms when something needs attention. It makes watching Brit films more work until you figure out how widely/varibly they use the word. It’s a little like how people the world over use “fu*k”. It can be inserted anywhere as an explicative, or verb, adverb, adjective or any part of speech to mean anything good, bad or indifferent. It can be used as a substitute for any word. In societies where swearing is un usual (like on the Moon) Translating an action or criminal movie where it’s every third word can make the closed captions ridiculously longer or shorter than just using the word. Translating lyrics is even more problematic because not only do straight translations not rhyme, the words themselves are often metaphors that don’t translate anyway because they are purely esoteric and often mean nothing outside a given context that can be stretched beyond the original bounds.

Do your own translation of a foreign song you like but don’t know anything about and you’ll see what I mean. Gibberish. You’ll settle for listening for the musical value.

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Old tees

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You might enjoy the video. I’ve never been to the UK (except Heathrow for an hour for a transit, so it doesn’t count) and I don’t think I’ll get around in Liverpool.

I sometimes listen to a Sherlock Holmes audiobook, read by an educated Brit. Since I read the stories sometime ago and vaguely recall the plots, I can follow the audio.

In the stories, sometimes Americans make an appearance and it’s interesting to note how a Brit perceives American English and tries to mimmick it. Or the reader tries various accents like Cockney, Westland and Scottish in order not to confuse the listner.

I worked in former East Germany as a translator for a Japanese engineering firm and there was an English engineer who inserted “f-cking” everywhere, virtually in front of every noun.

In an army consisting of various nationalities, such as NATO, linguistic confusion may be unavoidable. In international commercial flights, I understand English is used exclusively between the cockpits and control towers. But I don’t want to know how well or poorly these people speak English.

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On the surface we don’t know any better and we need something to believe in that gives us hope. Primal to our species.

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I am not so sure about that now. Have you seen how wussified Britain has become lately to allow Muslims to take over. I have something special for that twat Sadiqui Khan!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Canada is going down fast too

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It’s striking how people who didn’t get the vax were endangering those who did. That’s an oxymoron par excellence. If the others who got the vax, what can you give them, COVID? How can that be, they got the vax! If the vax doesn’t protect one from COVID, exactly what does it do? If the smallpox vaccine doesn’t protect from smallpox, why would they call it the smallpox vaccine, or a vaccine at all? This is a terrible mix of metaphors. If it works, you’re protected and you shouldn’t care one way of the other if people who refuse it drop dead in the streets. If it doesn’t work, What does it do to you?

I got it; the first two and the 1st booster, too. In retrospect, I’m sorry I did because the vax has since proven to be a definite maybe if it works, or not; or installs in your body genetic material that was inappropriate and forever, too, and probably contributes all sorts of bad effects to susceptible people for damage to heart muscles. All of the bad effects were a function of absent or poor testing protocols. Who’s in charge of that? All the people demanding you get the vax! This is criminal mis, mal, and non-feasance.

Add to that the teeny, little issue of all these people got a cut of the action. Yes, people on the federal payroll, -you know, the checks you sign for big-buck salaries for people who are at a distance above your pedestrian level? People who regulate the chemistry that makers of all things health, on your payroll get credit for the creation of the final chemistry because they forced the originators to alter something in the process of ingredients as regulators, then demand commissions on the final distribution!! So they profit with every shot delivered. That should be illegal; it certainly is unethical to be on both sides of the poker table.

I think that the next time something like crops up, we may be hanging guys like these from lampposts on Pennsylvania Avenue. Trump needs to look into this. The so-called medical community needs an anal examination because there is a lot of stink and we need to ferret it out.

The Canucks need to tie Justin to a 14-wheeler tailgate and drag him to BC. A new word enters my vocabulary. Corptocracy (runs the govt)

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That’s the power of the mainstream media. Sheeple believe anything they hear on TV. I had an experience with a Japanese forum (for foreign language learning). A woman wrote she was feeling fine in the heat of the summer until she turned on the TV and heard it was such and such degrees. Then she felt ill, like she was hit with a heat stroke.

Trump urged people to get vaxxed, and as far as I know, he never recanted.

I heard someone explain, Trump had to play the Deep State game in order to fight the Deep State. Huh?

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True , he was treated for Covid and gave us moron Anthony Fauci !! :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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No o o o o, the controversy had only just begun in/with an April, ’20 Press Conference when Trump finished his introductory statements and turned the mike over to Fauci, whereupon Fauci immediately contradicted Trump’s statement/illusion to the effect that the Wuhan Lab was the probable source with his little “couldn’t possibly be lab created as we experts all agree” routine. The media, shabby lying bastards one & all, grabbed that and ran with it. Trump had to rely on the so-called medical and pharmacological experts to deliver a vaxx ASAP, which they did. Little did anyone know that they tested it on 17 people and pronounced it a success when none of the 17 dropped dead after a week. It began the first step in hidden gory details of the shoddy medicine to be practiced on us all, -a product of conflicted regulators and what used to pass for the AMA of the US & Britain conspiring with Big Pharma. That has been dribbling out of the leaky medical ship of fools over the last 3 Âœ years because lots of people, -outsiders; have been doing tests and the more they look the more they see that does not comport with medical ethics. The CCP leak being The most egregious sin because it could have speeded-up the world response by a year, had they been forthright. But honesty & communism are mutually exclusive concepts that cannot exist in the same sentence without careful juxtaposition.

The net result is we all distrust govt even more than before. If the govt delivers it, you need to give the cat some first and see if he lives. The Justin Trudeauism of govt throughout the formerly thought of free world is scary, both in depth and speed. The free world finds itself having stepped thru a dark passageway back into the late 18th Century, sorely needing to re-seek good govt, again.