Customers also bought: Anthem by Ayn Rand. Irony.
Trumps protectionism is right out of the Ayn Rand villains handbook.
George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
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#1521984 is out of copyright in Australia and many other countries so you can grab it from project gutenberg for free
The Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) PDF is available on archive.org: https://ia800201.us.archive.org/8/items/NINETEENEIGHTY-FOUR1...
The original 1948 audiobook is also available: https://archive.org/details/NINETEENEIGHTY-FOUR1984ByGeorgeO...
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going to take off the objective hat and talk as a liberal. The answer I give to this is for the US, the President is both the head of state and the head of government. As is clear from recent articles about Trump's manner in the white house, his team is very much making many of the small policy decisions while Trump gets to strut out as the figurehead. So yes, Trump stepping down wouldn't mean much difference when it…
I hear what you're saying. For me, actively working to make someone president (Pence) who has a proven track record in politics doing things for many years I disagree with seems even less desirable to me. Hard to say what the 'lesser of two evils' is here.
Perception of the country and international policy and diplomacy.
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
#154Maybe the Americans are just over-dramatic
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#155Doublethink is pervasive in a lot of modern thought. Hopefully this trend will make people evaluate it a bit more.
Re: George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
#156More people need to read Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here" (1935) which I didn't take so seriously when I first read it in high school.
From NYT Book Review: Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/books/review/classic-nove...
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2017/01/21/why-youll-get-you... 'For every hour that an American spent knitting a hat . . .'
>Finally, the march here in Boston seems to have proved Donald Trump correct regarding the incompetence of U.S. local, state, and federal government. Despite soaking up 40-50 percent of GDP, the government couldn’t adapt to the forecast demand for transportation today by, e.g., adding extra trains. Even a stopped clock....
You, I and every other person who's ever lived in MA know that the MA gov't is beyond dysfunctional. Expecting them to lean on the MBTA or any other entity to get shit done when necessary is like asking for a utopia.
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So does Hillary get to spend the foundation money on herself?
Didn't the leaks reveal that Chelsea's wedding was paid for by the foundation?
Here is the email in question so you all can judge for yourselves:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/52046
For context, Doug Band is a very close Clinton associate and he's discussing an initiative apparently launched by Chelsea Clinton to investigate money within the Clinton Foundation (which is also mentioned in some of the other Podesta emails).
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going to take off the objective hat and talk as a liberal. The answer I give to this is for the US, the President is both the head of state and the head of government. As is clear from recent articles about Trump's manner in the white house, his team is very much making many of the small policy decisions while Trump gets to strut out as the figurehead. So yes, Trump stepping down wouldn't mean much difference when it…
his team is very much making many of the small policy decisions while Trump gets to strut out as the figurehead. Which is pretty much exactly how you would expect a "I have no idea what I'm doing but I don't want to fuck it up so I'll fill my cabinet with people who know what they're doing and let them do their thing" administration to work. >Not to mention his poor demeanor, his lack of likeability, his unpopularity…
i think some of those things are part of the job, right? is your country getting rich really worth it if it means you cross every moral boundary and inflict continual psychological trauma on half the people in it?
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#160I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it. Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but…
Trump has been in office for 4 days. Conflict of interest laws do not apply to US Presidents, so the business interest argument is moot. We don't impeach Presidents because a loud group of people dislikes the fact that they lost an election. We impeach Presidents when they commit crimes, which he has not done and hasn't even been in office long enough to do.
The emoluments clause of the constitution applies to all members of government.