WuWei
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No. None of them are. And alphas aren’t chosen.
WuWei
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It sounds like you are making a back-handed Nazi comparison, but that can’t be right.
Does choice not to challenge out of fear or respect imply choice?
Serious question not trying to be an ass
WuWei
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No. The pack, herd, flock does not choose alphas. Alphas take. They self-select.
And no Trump nor Obama are alphas.
Jezcoe
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It isn’t that complicated.
Germany has a horrific past but given that I think that the country is still good.
Stop thinking about it so hard.
WuWei
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Ok. This thread isn’t about Germany.
And there is nothing in the US past that compares to that.
I have to think about it hard. Last vestiges of intellectual intimidation.
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Jezcoe
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I simply brought Germany up to illustrate that I believe that the US is a good country in spite of our past.
What I find disappointing is that some think that acknowledging and understanding that past will harm the country.
I don’t think that it will.
WuWei
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This thread isn’t about Germany.
What I find disappointing is that you believe critical theory is about the past.
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Jezcoe
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Holy missing the point Batman
Is this thread now about critical theory?
I didn’t bring it up.
I think a dude with barely any political experience took
That goes for both Obama and trump. An NYC financier snd a black lawyer. They promised - forgotten man and hope/change. Barely delivered. Both could have won a third term. Brains didn’t matter for either. Delivery of promises did. Imo those who promise to get elected but don’t deliver are takers.
WuWei
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I don’t believe you have a point.
WuWei
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We both know what you’re trying to do. You can’t help it.
Okie clearly this sounded better in my head
You said alphas take.
In a republic If i can convince an electorate that i will deliver but can’t or had no intention to is that the same as taking.
WuWei
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Some good answers here. The usual suspects doing the usual.
Good night.
WuWei
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Republic has nothing to do with convincing an electorate. In fact quite the opposite.
Any electorate. The flock. The pack. Whatever.
Jezcoe
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I was giving a compliment to the country that I love. The nation of my birth. Where thirteen generations of my progenitors have lived.
That despite all of the history, the United States is a good country
I would not say the same about Russia.
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Yet we still vote for bourgeois/oligarchs to rule us. Sad face
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