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The timeline in which the Democrats and Republicans have largely swapped sides since the civil war is complicated. The modern Republican party is not at all the party of Abraham Lincoln. The Democrats aren't a populist party any more but where they did go is a mixed story.
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The shop changed hands years ago. Weird racist guy doesn't own it any more.
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Fenella Fielding.
Anybody mind if I smoke?
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I guess that's kinder than chemical castration
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So this is the table of contents for Woodward's book:
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Terry Davis, the ever so slightly eccentric creator of TempleOS, the operating system he made so that he could talk to God.
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it's the weird backward logic that moderates willing to accept pragmatic compromise for the sake of making progress are somehow fratonising with the enemy
Pragmatism is not something that belongs to "centrists". Aneurin Bevan had to be pragmatic to get the NHS from a dream to a reality, but he was nobody's centrist.
A lot of people who call themselves centrists are just lazily indulging the golden mean fallacy. The kind of asshole who used to say "You're very confident in your opinion" when they had no response to an argument, but has now graduated to "I take the middle ground" and feels good about it, despite knowing fuck all about the actual ground.
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And yet the Net is still full of his fanboys, defending this shit and attacking his critics.
Bald man wearing a hat who might be Scottish