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   Physfitfreak to Ross Finlayson   
   Re: DeepSeek helping me to clarify   
   14 Apr 25 22:53:13   
   
   XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/14/25 10:33 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   > On 04/14/2025 08:09 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:   
   >> On 4/14/25 9:26 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>> On 04/14/2025 06:51 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:   
   >>>> On 4/14/25 5:32 PM, The Starmaker wrote:   
   >>>>> J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> The Starmaker  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Where do you think The Constitution of the United States comes   
   >>>>>>> from???   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> The Roman Empire! am i wrong here?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Yes, you are, and off-topic too,   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Jan   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The Founding Fathers drew inspiration from the Roman Republic,   
   >>>>> especially its emphasis on checks and balances, but adapted the model   
   >>>>> to create a unique system of government.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> U.S. Constitution is dated. Americans now get their "inspiration" from   
   >>>> Satan, not the Roman Republic.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Speak for yourself.   
   >>>   
   >>> Pretty much whenever I see frothy post-bait like "the end of   
   >>> the world is nigh" or "get used to it", either, it's like,   
   >>> I don't believe either of you two and furthermore I think   
   >>> it's mostly the result of a straw-man froth-farm meant to   
   >>> desensitive like a meat tenderizer, and that it most certainly   
   >>> does _not_ represent common sense and usual opinion.   
   >>>   
   >>> I was talking to this guy the other day, we met and were   
   >>> talking and he says "I'm 96 years old" and we were having   
   >>> a genial conversation and talking about what a wonderful   
   >>> world it was and better than alright then a bit about   
   >>> the politics and he says "stupid bastards" then back   
   >>> about seeing the world and having a nice day.   
   >>>   
   >>> The Founding Fathers of America after Locke and Montesqieu   
   >>> and Montaigne arrived at a bill of universal individual   
   >>> rights, if though the universal bit took a while to get   
   >>> fulfilled, vis-a-vis being Senators and Governors and such.   
   >>>   
   >>> So, that's a _great_ and important and critical aspect,   
   >>> and with what resulted the middle class, and a strong   
   >>> and educated middle class which these days is sort of   
   >>> fat and media-addicted, the Bill of Rights is a particularly   
   >>> American invention and is widely modeled around the world   
   >>> as what results human rights and these sorts things.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> The Roman Republic was a particularly innovative form   
   >>> of government itself, as after something like Polybius'   
   >>> history of it, and for Strabo or for Marcus Aurelius,   
   >>> then though that these days we've already done better.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Then as with regards to mechanical inference it's sort   
   >>> of a thing as "well you can get born and have to keep   
   >>> all your bodily functions functioning and get parented   
   >>> until you reach the age of majority which is about 18 years,   
   >>> during which time your spawners are responsible for any   
   >>> your actions".   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Human years, ....   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> So, anyways, you can talk about radicals of either ilk,   
   >>> but usual nonagenarians think they're s.b.'s.   
   >>>   
   >>> Such radicals are not natural friends of a prosperous middle class.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Hmm.. Good old days you might think. Not anymore! You people aren't the   
   >> Americans who developed such thoughts.   
   >>   
   >> And even they, the "founding fathers".. they sucked bad. As the dead   
   >> American Natives. The live ones too, you know, the ones that one day   
   >> will devour you.   
   >>   
   >> Problem is your species. It is your species that's outdated.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Actually much of the Americas North and South is mestizo,   
   > and lots of Indians-with-a-feather integrated, though it's   
   > agreeable that the various cultures of the post-Deluvian   
   > saw very different arrivals at organizations of peoples.   
   >   
   >   
   > Of course the kool-aid is very palatable, or as with regards   
   > to that ideally the egalitarian ideals beat other systems of   
   > government, with regards to free-thinking and independent peoples,   
   > what the majority would be.   
   >   
   >   
   > So, you're welcome to that foul kool-aid, here we have good stuff.   
   > Or, the right stuff, as it were.   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   Last time I really enjoyed Kool-aid I was 5 and in Tehran, not here in   
   U.S. In some respects it saved me also, cause I was able to do what I   
   wanted and not what my mother was incessantly telling me. She was   
   thinking Kool-Aid is bad for me, especially how I   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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