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  1. Skallagrim

    Debate on the U.S.'s long term strategic and technological goals in an increasingly multi-polar world.

    It's also Motier, not Mortier. If you want to be clever, at least get it right. Historically considered, this proposition isn't extreme, but in fact quintessentially moderate. Practically every society that has ever existed (including the USA for most of its history) has generally imposed more...
  2. Skallagrim

    Debate on the U.S.'s long term strategic and technological goals in an increasingly multi-polar world.

    Look, I completely agree with you on getting rid of any federal minimum wage and the bloated welfare state, but how does that preclude what @Scottty suggested? You keep coming back to this binary, where someone is either a citizen or an illegal alien. It's completely possibly to create a...
  3. Skallagrim

    Debate on the U.S.'s long term strategic and technological goals in an increasingly multi-polar world.

    Fascinating. Doesn't have anything to do with what we're actually discussing. You wrote: That is what I am disputing. Because you are factually incorrect. Your interactions with traffic cops are of no concern to me. For your edification, and to further illustrate the salient point: The...
  4. Skallagrim

    Debate on the U.S.'s long term strategic and technological goals in an increasingly multi-polar world.

    You apparently don't know what a poll tax is. It's a literal tax that you have to pay in order to be allowed to vote. Alternative prerequisites to the right to vote, such as providing identification, taking a test, having a certificate of mental health, proving that you have no criminal record...
  5. Skallagrim

    Debate on the U.S.'s long term strategic and technological goals in an increasingly multi-polar world.

    A poll tax and an eligibility test are two very different concepts. You could maybe argue to the court that if you have to pay to take the test, that's actually a hidden poll tax. But if that's not the case, then no taxation is involved, and the 24th Amendment doesn't apply.
  6. Skallagrim

    Debate on the U.S.'s long term strategic and technological goals in an increasingly multi-polar world.

    Long story short: America needs to sort out its shit back home. (Since I started writing this long post, that has already been brought up in the thread. Good. I agree!) Domestic problems have caused the current inability to effectively project power. Solve the domestic problems, and the...
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