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Merva

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  • Probably not tbf

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  • Nero has been pretty much redeemed in modern scholarship. The majority of the stories about him stems from slander written by avowed enemies of the Julio-Claudians (Tacitus and Suetonius in particular), later amplified by Christian writers who carried a special grudge against him. The archaeological evidence suggests he was a capable ruler, who carried out lots of large scale projects that were pretty beneficial overall, and he certainly didn't set Rome on fire and fiddled while he watched it burn.

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    So anyway

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  • Yeah, Americans love to fantasise about their beloved 2nd amendment (regardless of political persuasion), but they have never ever used it for what they (falsely) claim it was intended for.

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  • You are arguing from ignorance. The terms republic and democracy and so on have rather solid definitions in political science. Republic is not a very informative descriptor of the poltical system of a country, it just means that the role of head of state in't heritable, ie. that it isn't a monarchy. The actual political system of a republic can be basically anything except a monarchy.

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  • A republic just means that a country doesn't have a heritable head of state. All of those listed countries are in actual fact republics. It says next to nothing about the actual political system of a country besides the role of the head of state. Lots and lots of dictatorships are republics. Many democracies are republics as well, but as you can see it is the dictatorship/democracy part which describes the important part of those countries political systems, not republic.

    Many Americans are confused about this, because they have been indoctrinated into thinking that republic is the main descriptor of their system. Mainly because it was an important descriptor back in the 18th century, when most countries were monarchies, but much less so in later times when most existing countries are republics.

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  • There are lots of republics where the president does serve as a literal figurehead without any consequential powers, so a republic does not necessarily turn up with a Trump. In fact the US is rather unique in how it has combined republic with absolute monarchy in the office of the president, probably very much a sign of how antiquated the constitution is.

  • A tax on people-pleasing

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  • It definitely does not work in an environment where lazy aggressive apatheists will support a system they don't like by claiming it can't be changed.

  • A tax on people-pleasing

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  • If everyone stopped tipping tomorrow, the only people that would be hurting are the people who serve.

    Who would then not want to work in those places that depends entirely of tipping. And then it hurts the owners of those places.

    How are you unable to realise this? It is all connected.

  • A tax on people-pleasing

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  • Unfortunately as this very thread shows, a lot of Americans are mindbogglingly not in agreement about that. Which explains a lot about the current predicament of the country.

  • A tax on people-pleasing

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  • How long do you think that wait staff will stay in the restaurants where their wage consists of tipping which doesn't exist?

  • A tax on people-pleasing

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  • What if everyone didn't expect you to tip? You vehemently defending the tipping system is part of why EVERYONE expects you to tip.

    That kind of aggressive apatheism is what makes the system continue.

  • A tax on people-pleasing

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  • It works both ways. If noone tips then noone will work at restaurants where their wage consists solely of tipping. That is also how capitalism works.

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  • OP says they are from Eastern Europe. They have no reach there.

  • US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return

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  • Yes, but not as much as they are now. That really says something.

  • RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day

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  • Because he is part of the ruling class. US law doesn't apply to them and never has.

  • House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts in Trump's big bill

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  • Because the GOP are not only as complicit in this as Trump, they are the root cause of all this happening, and cutting medicaid has been on their wishlist for decades. McConnell termed himself "the grim reaper", exactly based on his objective to cut thing like this. I don't understand why people keep considering them as some separate entity from Trump.

    Trump is the manifestation of the GOP.

  • Trump Is Said to Be Getting Qatari 747 for Air Force One, and Post-Presidency Travel

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  • As with all of his crimes that would require someone to hold him accountable, so not really.

  • Daily

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  • That is pretty much how the mechanics of human consciousness works. We also know we are going to die some day, and that it is most likely not going to be very pleasant leading up to it. But we still manage to block out that knowledge of finality in our daily life.

  • Daily

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  • No, the current climate change situation is unparalleled in human history.

  • Was he ever cognitively there?

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  • For anybody else in his position it would have been a pretty big deal. But because it is Trump and we know how he is with words (as in not at all), this is "nothing".