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Recent content by Indicus

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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    Suppose I should have said “untrue” rather than “dishonest”; the latter provided a value judgement which I did not mean and provoked you into a tone of aggression. But perhaps I spoke too soon, seeing as further down in your reply you, quite literally, invert the meaning of my argument. My take...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    I shall get to the rest in a minute, but just one thing. No I did not. I suggested it would be absurd to expect taxes to not, to some level pick winners and losers of the economy, because the only possible way to avoid that happening, would be to determine some arithmetic formula which would...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    @Wendell , this has become a case of quote-spaghetti, as perhaps is the inevitable state of any forum argument that has gone on for too long. I shall, for that reason, group together like quotes from different parts together, in an effort to neatify this argument. I hope you will not consider...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    You are engaged in bad-faith argumentation here. I apologize if I did anything to earn this tone of enmity from you, but regardless I must dispute this. You made it sound as if the court struck down an executive order and Roosevelt did some Charles I shit in response; I merely specified that the...
  5. Indicus

    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    The 1866 court packing plan went beyond removing just one Supreme Court justice, indeed it removed two and would’ve removed three but by then Johnson was out of office so Congress did not see the need. I am very confused as to where I claimed that “Congress can never do any wrong...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    This is a very dishonest framing - the issue was that the court was legislating from above through dubious interpretations of the Constitution, against the will of Congress which, after all, is assigned the duty of legislation. I will also note that you are using the word "multiple" because...
  7. Indicus

    Scenes We'd Like To See: Alternate Movies, Television & Other Pop Culture Miscellanea

    You’ve repeatedly said stuff like this, endorsing imperialism and expressing nostalgia for a time before human rights messed it up; I would respect you a lot more if you had the boldness to include some justification.
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    The plausibility/probability problem with scenarios 'saving' Reconstruction through punitive, class-based policies and racial inversion

    Like yeah @raharris1973 I think I just about get your argument - you think the ideology Edmund Burke expounds in Reflections on the Revolutions in France is less an ideology, and more the fixed fundaments to the Anglo-American national character, and land reform by being the "Jacobinism" this...
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    The plausibility/probability problem with scenarios 'saving' Reconstruction through punitive, class-based policies and racial inversion

    That you can type this with a straight face after the last three pages of this thread, where you've ignored every argument made against your points in favor of restating your points again, is tremendous.
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    The plausibility/probability problem with scenarios 'saving' Reconstruction through punitive, class-based policies and racial inversion

    Come on dude, this is basically trolling at this point. We have literally discussed all the things you're talking about here; but instead of responding to anything, you're just repeating the same two or three points over and over again. You're on a discussion forum; you should get around to...
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    -The editors of the Nanjing Xinbao, 1901; fourteen years before being arrested for sedition under the orders of Supreme President Lee (Sorry, had to do it)
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    I did try to show that Hokkaido was Russian before it was Japanese with the placenames there - Japanizations of Russian names - but yes that is not intuitive here. The POD is definitely well before the Sino-French War, yes. Indochina never falls under French rule - I believe as I had it it’s...
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    Thanks! Tibet broke away during the flight of the Qing to Mukden, kicking out the amban and simply declaring itself an independent theocracy, and it successfully imposed itself against Tibetan feudatories during the instability in China that followed. China did maintain some hopes of...
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread
    Threadmarks: The Masque of Peace: China

    In 1890, one would be forgiven for assuming that East Asia would all ultimately fall to the Russian Empire. The spectacular downfall of the Qing allowed it to grow in its absence. Tsar Michael could lay claim to a vast domain, from the Frisian port of Jever to the Manchu metropolis of Mukden...
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    WI: HMS Phaeton attacks Nagasaki, 1808

    During the Napoleonic Wars, the British spent their time trying to grab every Dutch (or, after its annexation, French) colony - one place where they didn't was Dejima, an artificial island off the coast of Nagasaki which allowed the Dutch exclusive access to trade within the otherwise closed...
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