There seems to be an endless supply of these morons. Have the communists been tinkering with our water again?

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Originally posted by Ianfiniti:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
We're not a democracy, genius. We're a constitutional republic...

This isn't the first time I have seen this response to this sort of thing on this site.

Am I missing something? Last I learned we were both an democracy (albiet an indirect, or representative democracy) AND a republic, they aren't mutually exclusive...

Can someone explain this point of view to me, have I been wrong all this time?

That is right. We are both.

A republic is a government where power derives from the people - as opposed to a monarchy or dictatorship. This implies voting, whether directly or indirectly, but it isn't specific about how that is implemented.

We are also a representative democracy, meaning we elect representatives that then make policy and law. We have a form of democracy. Direct democracy can't work if you have to make more than a few decisions, and are dealing with more than a few hundred people.

Our democracy, as Chellim notes, is limited by the Constitution. Which is what people mean when they say we are a Constitutional democracy.

I guess to completely describe our system you could say we are a constitutional representative democracy, and a republic. Republic is the most general descriptor of that string, and is almost redundant once you know we have some form of democracy.


In contrast, Great Britain is nominally a monarchy, although in practice it is an indirect democracy as well. They call themselves a constitutional monarchy, although, best as I can tell, they don't mean that the power of the government is limited by a constitution (which they don't have), but that the monarch's power is limited by the elected parts of government. Of course, nowadays, the monarch's power is almost completely eliminated by the elected parts of the government.

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Originally posted by jayhalsey:
I enjoy her pictures. And by "her pictures" I mean:

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Originally posted by downtownv:
Her best work appears in a google search (Images) Her Daddie must be proud of her exhibitionism...

the ones that she takes on her phone and uploads to the cloud.

Those may be better even than her acting. She should stick to that.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I know it's trite and frowned upon here, but I really DID say "Who?" and then looked her up. AFAIK, I've never watched anything with her in it.

I haven't either.

flashguy

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Originally posted by parabellum:
We're not a democracy, genius. We're a constitutional republic. How are you going to fix what you don't even understand?

The arrogance of these halfwits. You're just an actor. That's all. You're just an actor. You aren't going to "fix" jack shit. Snap out of it.

This is what I was going to say.

In the Catnip movies she played the part of an archer.

AFAIAC, she took to archery like a duck takes to knitting.

tac

Jennifer is a hometown girl, so she’s well known here; but no one is paying any attention to her at present, as the big brouhaha today is that the NCAA has taken away the 2013 UofL championship win thanks to “Slick Rick” Pitino’s “infractions” of the rules on “recruiting”, among other things.

I have the utmost confidence that she will clean things up in less than a year. She seems so cerebral and junk.

This actually explains it all.

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Jennifer Lawrence Is a Middle-School Dropout

Jennifer Lawrence is an objectively successful human. The 27-year-old actress won her first Academy Award when she was just 22 and she's also been nominated three other times. It turns out that she didn't have a traditional path to success, though. In a new interview with 60 Minutes, Lawrence revealed that she dropped out of school when she was just 14.

"I dropped out of middle school. I don't technically have a GED or a diploma. I am self-educated," she explains in the interview.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyl...opout-204800301.html

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I know it's trite and frowned upon here, but I really DID say "Who?" and then looked her up. AFAIK, I've never watched anything with her in it.

I haven't either.

flashguy

That's because y'all are old farts (I'm well on my way to becoming an old fart, too.)

She's one of the most in-demand actresses going today. That doesn't mean she has a single political opinion worth a damn, but if ya haven't heard of her, it's just because you haven't been paying attention to new movies movies for the last 8 years.

Although it goes back several pages, I just wanted to thank darthfuster and repeat what he posted:

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She's already off to a flaming chariot ride down the wrong path. The problems we have are the consequences of a toxicity in our culture. She and her fellow travelers are the greatest part of that toxicity. The corruption she seeks is in the lowered standards of abandoned morality and the great turning away of the 60's and 70's. We are now where those with eyes to see said we would be if we embraced moral decay. There is no amount of fixing consequences that will solve the core problem. The correction she hopes for is the only one she will not make.

Perfect. Thanks!

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Although it goes back several pages, I just wanted to thank darthfuster and repeat what he posted:

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She's already off to a flaming chariot ride down the wrong path. The problems we have are the consequences of a toxicity in our culture. She and her fellow travelers are the greatest part of that toxicity. The corruption she seeks is in the lowered standards of abandoned morality and the great turning away of the 60's and 70's. We are now where those with eyes to see said we would be if we embraced moral decay. There is no amount of fixing consequences that will solve the core problem. The correction she hopes for is the only one she will not make.

Perfect. Thanks!

I might add that most liberals are either unwilling or incapable of realizing it is the values they promote that produce the problems in society they denounce.

Wow! A double "hear, hear!" to all of the above! Well said Darthfuster.

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Jennifer Lawrence to quit acting

Excellent!

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to 'fix our democracy'

Awwww, damn.

Well, it sounded good for a minute there.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I know it's trite and frowned upon here, but I really DID say "Who?" and then looked her up. AFAIK, I've never watched anything with her in it.

I haven't either.

flashguy

That's because y'all are old farts (I'm well on my way to becoming an old fart, too.)

She's one of the most in-demand actresses going today. That doesn't mean she has a single political opinion worth a damn, but if ya haven't heard of her, it's just because you haven't been paying attention to new movies movies for the last 8 years.

I haven't paid much attention to movies in the last dozen years, because there haven't been any worth seeing. I don't "do" movies with "social messages" or that are "chick flicks" or incorporate excessive gore. I don't watch Anime, either, and kids' movies are not for me (no children). I like good action movies and war movies that don't try to press social issues.

oddball, if she is "self-educated" it explains a lot.

flashguy

I sure won’t miss her.

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Originally posted by Vgex:
I sure won’t miss her.

I confess that my 80 YO memory is getting kind of thin, but I have very dim memories of someone with her name. What she did, does, is a complete blank.

Of course, the last time I/we went to a movie theater was when Dr. Zhivago first came out. Which would have been in the late '60s or early '70s.

Do you think this might explain anything?

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm222...io?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm:

Is really good friends with Amy Schumer.

Too bas she's a decent actress, seems she needs to stick to what she knows.

She should run for congress. She pretends to be someone one day, then the next, she's someone else. Maybe she's a republican?