Thanks for posting, fascinating read. I haven’t used coinbase in years but useful to know they’re shitheads
Thanks for posting, fascinating read. I haven’t used coinbase in years but useful to know they’re shitheads
The United States is one of the best examples of a democratic republic, it is absolutely both a democracy and a republic.
Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law observes that the United States exemplifies the varied nature of a constitutional republic—a country where some decisions (often local) are made by direct democratic processes, while others (often federal) are made by democratically elected representatives
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_republic
The lack of high school civics education in this country has done untold damage
And we didn’t abolish slavery for 89 years after declaring independence. We can absolutely agree change is usually painfully, unnecessarily, terribly slow but it does happen, requiring time, work, and sacrifice
our lives are worse than four, eight, twelve, sixteen, or however many four years you want to go back our lives get worse every election no matter who wins
Is what I was replying to and it’s objectively false.
An important caveat is that positive societal change is absolutely not inevitable, generations have fought to improve the injustices of their times and we must carry on their legacy lest we allow their sacrifices to be in vain
Tell that to my friends who’s parents weren’t allowed to get married until our lifetimes or who’s great grandparents were classified as 3/5ths of a person
Jesus Christ, I always said obgyn tools seem to look like medieval torture devices but this takes the cake
Here’s a paywall free link: https://archive.is/xNrva