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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Mike Duncan wrote a book called The Storm Before the Storm about the century leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic and one of the themes he returns to quite often is the steady erosion of mos maiorum, or the uncodified but vital social norms that formed an important supporting structure in roman civic life. These rules were sacrosanct until they weren't any longer (the book is filled with examples of important Roman figures like Marius, Sulla, and others breaking them), and as these unspoken prohibitions crumbled, ambitious individuals were afforded more and more leeway to blatantly ignore the actual laws. We all know what the result was and reading the book, it was difficult not to see the politics of the last 20 years closely resemble this pattern. I've seen articles and editorials since the early 90s that the USA is speed-running the Roman empire. The only change I've ever seen in the discussion is to what will cause it. I dug around but it's difficult to find articles pre-dating the internet.
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zoux posted:No it's Habba engaging in the 5D chess "That would be a good idea" 
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zoux posted:I suppose one complicating factor is that the RNC is almost completely broke because big name donors don't want their money going to pay for Trump's legal fees 
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John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme courtquote:Oliver made the proposal on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, saying the supreme court justice had 30 days to accept or it would expire. He also offered him a luxury motor coach. 
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Why are people underestimating the value of his $15bn property?
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dr_rat posted:Just checked, bit over two weeks in and the gofundme for trumps legal fees has made a whooping 1.3 million, and don't think it's really gone up much in the past week of that. Even if he was to see any of it -I still think it's pretty doubtful, no real salvation there. I can only think they already got what they wanted and the money was just the payoff. Whatever they wanted may not be directly evident ... like looking the other way while something was happening with the Saudi's.
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redbrouw posted:Back On Board Spelled "bored" - Norm
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Doctor Yiff posted:Last time I was in a jury pool it was for a drug-related murder case. I was dismissed because I told them I've been harassed by police who assume I'm doing sex work because I was both a) transgender and b) in public somewhere. The last two times I was in jury duty they asked me if I had any relations in law enforcement; yes, two of my uncles were county sheriffs and a number of my in-laws worked in the prison system (in high ranking positions). I was dismissed immediately.
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My mom worked the burn ward at our local hospital, surviving horrific burns is torture; I won't go into the details other than to say recovery is its own hell and anyone you know that recovered from 3rd degree burns went through some poo poo.
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