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A lot of misguided and erroneous law came out of that era.
1. The administrative state. A belief that a superior class could properly direct the state. A lot of classim and racism from the comparatively few with elite educations or pedigrees. Direct predecessor to today's elites and the two class Democrat party. 2. The civil service laws. The consequences of having a permanently employed government workforce are now in full harmful effect. Corruption, cooption of the Democrat party, excessive post-retirement legacy budget expense, resistant to change, inefficient. 3. Everything is a dramatic battle. Government as the only solution. Diminishment of the individual. A playing field tilted to massive corporations who can deal with regulation. Revolving door cronyism. ETA: 4. Misguided monopoly law. A legacy of ruining companies providing excellent value, service, and prices to the market. Aluminum, petroleum, aircraft, rail, etc. |
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The worst thing that TR did was to split the vote with Taft in 1912 and allow Woodrow Wilson to become president.
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Some of you are just absolute fucking assholes who wish we were forced to work 16 hours a day with no labor protection laws.
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Quoted: It's a sweet little rifle. My dad bought it in a liquor store in Kountze in 1969 View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: i wanted to be pissed, i really did but i'm not, not even a little. do better. It's a sweet little rifle. My dad bought it in a liquor store in Kountze in 1969 somewhere my dad has a cowboy commemorative 30-30 winchester from the 70s it's a sloppy POS but i don't remember if i've ever even fired it. story is that he traded an 8-track deck for it though so he came out on top no matter what |
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View Quote That meme is literally stupid |
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Quoted: That meme is literally stupid literally |
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Quoted: Progressive 100+ years ago is not the same thing as progressive today. View Quote The philosophical underpinnings are identical. That individuals cannot run their own lives and need a big strong government controlling everything for them, making the world safe for them, and controlling their personal behavior for their own good. The progressive movement of the late 1890s/1900s was the genesis of the overgrown monster of a Federal government we now labor under. |
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Quoted: A lot of misguided and erroneous law came out of that era. 1. The administrative state. A belief that a superior class could properly direct the state. A lot of classim and racism from the comparatively few with elite educations or pedigrees. Direct predecessor to today's elites and the two class Democrat party. 2. The civil service laws. The consequences of having a permanently employed government workforce are now in full harmful effect. Corruption, cooption of the Democrat party, excessive post-retirement legacy budget expense, resistant to change, inefficient. 3. Everything is a dramatic battle. Government as the only solution. Diminishment of the individual. A playing field tilted to massive corporations who can deal with regulation. Revolving door cronyism. ETA: 4. Misguided monopoly law. A legacy of ruining companies providing excellent value, service, and prices to the market. Aluminum, petroleum, aircraft, rail, etc. View Quote This guy gets it |
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Quoted: He's the one that sported a Winchester .405 wasn't he? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: i agree but i bet he would have been one fun motherfucker to hang out with He's the one that sported a Winchester .405 wasn't he? Yup. Hunted lion on horseback with a levergun. He's also the one who got shot in the chest, kept the crowd from lynching the shooter, gave a 90 minute speech and then went to hospital. The biggest balls of any President we've ever had by quite a margin. |
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Quoted: He was pretty much the prototype progressive politician. He ran against his own former VP because he felt he wasn't progressive enough. Hell, his party in that presidential run was called the Progressive Party. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: i feel like we need some @1andy2 insight here He was pretty much the prototype progressive politician. He ran against his own former VP because he felt he wasn't progressive enough. Hell, his party in that presidential run was called the Progressive Party. and this is why i invited you and stayed away from the mashed potatoes. sure enough, dick prints... |
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Quoted: Some of you are just absolute fucking assholes who wish we were forced to work 16 hours a day with no labor protection laws. View Quote Is there someone here advocating that? No. Plus, a lot of workers are back to permanent on-call, or never-ending email expectations. The unions are mostly government workers and have failed everyone else. It's their own damn fault for being involved with Leftist politics, antiquated ideas about retirement methods, idiotic work rules. Unions still press for non-portable, non-individual, long vesting period defined benefits pensions instead of day 1 vesting into individually owned retirement investments. Far too many company and union plans are rip-offs. |
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Quoted: progressive ? yes. most progressive president in history. trash. thats gotta be a troll post. he was the most popular president in history. his progressive agenda had to do with things like ending child labor, breaking trusts and similar stuff. he built up american military prior to wwI. he was one of the great men of his age. View Quote Throw out some rando bullshit and say "fight me" "change my mind" or "discuss" is by definition trolling for a argument. |
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Quoted: He didn't lead an army, he led a citizen militia. WTF do you guys think the 2A was for? View Quote Do you honestly think the idiots (mostly) of GD actually do something like read an actual history book? I still have not fully made up my mind on which branch of collectivists actually try to rewrite history the most. |
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So how many in this thread criticising the trust busting have actually read "Inquiry to the cause of the rise of wealth amongst nations"?
Edit: So how communistic do you guys think this quote is? "the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life... But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it." |
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Atilla the Hun was an anticolonial, non aligned, commie
Really a leftist tbqh |
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Just communist piece of shit
That helped make America what it is today |
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I was at Lake Tear in the Clouds last year taking it all in. Pretty neat to know Roosevelt found out he was going to be President while resting there before his planned summit of Mount Marcy. It’s brutal getting there. I can only imagine how horrible it must’ve been with the gear they had.
That’s all I have. Fascinating character otherwise. Had a life of envy. |
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Quoted: I bet this pisses y'all off. This is my Teddy Roosevelt Commemorative Winchester model 94. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/124978/win94_jpg-2811627.JPG View Quote Nice. |
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Quoted: Yup. Hunted lion on horseback with a levergun. He's also the one who got shot in the chest, kept the crowd from lynching the shooter, gave a 90 minute speech and then went to hospital. The biggest balls of any President we've ever had by quite a margin. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: i agree but i bet he would have been one fun motherfucker to hang out with He's the one that sported a Winchester .405 wasn't he? Yup. Hunted lion on horseback with a levergun. He's also the one who got shot in the chest, kept the crowd from lynching the shooter, gave a 90 minute speech and then went to hospital. The biggest balls of any President we've ever had by quite a margin. ... and the morals and political sense of a mayfly. What a combo! |
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