Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The election of George Washington was weirder than you think" video.

  1. We idolize the founding fathers, but really democracy was just an historic accident. We could have just as easily had a King Washington.
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  2. Only when you're involved
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  3. Note: International organizations with quasi-government power were actually the norm in the 18th century. The Holy Roman Empire was actually hundreds of sovereign states and all the Swiss Cantons were sovereign. The Ottoman Empire was an absolutist monarchy on paper but in fact it was hundreds of sovereign states. The Spanish and Tsarist Empires were likewise only unified only on paper as it could take over a year for any message to travel and it could take a decade for any royal intervention to materialize if at all.
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  4. Only if your teacher was a fraud. But frankly since I started teaching it seems k-12 history is way more cursory than I remember
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  5. What?
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  6.  @musicmaker1617  Colonial and rape are as unrelated as US parties are to Europe.
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  7. The Feds rule the world. You support the Feds. Get over it.
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  8. Nah. Direct elections came later and the electors and population always vote the same
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  9. That would take a whole series
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  10. Constitutional revisions only really happen at gunpoint.
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  11. Liar
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  12. Liar
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  13. Liar. The Feds rule the world.
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  14. Liar
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  15. @bawsack69  it's intentionally misleading to the point you might have well made it up. A number of early politicians were freemasons but that organization played no role in politics
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  16.  @bawsack69  I'm a grad student in my late 20s. I got a feeling you're over 50
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  17. @bawsack69  Military history. Now don't you have a divorce to finalize, you failed abortion?
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  18. Watch the video
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  19. Good men follow God's law the best they can and follow man's law for as long as it's expedient. Treason is only a matter of who wins.
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  20.  @paulbromley6687  Who said anything about lying? Borders and governments come and go with the decades, no need to get sentimental about them.
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  21.  @paulbromley6687  And why would I care if that were true? And I missed the till death do us part in our oaths of enlistment
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  22. So?
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  23. Who frickin cares?
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  24. Shut up. Get drafted
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  25. Because the electors announce their votes ahead of time. Some states allow them to change their minds but most don't.
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  26. Not happening
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  27. Shut up
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  28. Liar
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  29. We were never socialist. But basically, American socialists were all gangbangers trying to start a revolution and legalize piracy against rich people. Also, we haven't really had any allies over the decades that were socialists. I.E. The Communists, the National Socialists, the Anarcho-Socialists, the Nasserists, the Ba'ath, the EFF, the ANC, the PFLP, and so on all happened to be enemies for unrelated reasons.
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  30. We like to pretend our democracy an ideology rather than just a historic accident that was idolized.
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  31.  1234567890zachary  liar
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  32.  1234567890zachary  like... you?
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  33.  1234567890zachary  Dude, you speak English natively, ergo you're definitely as much apart of these vague "empires and banks" as everyone else.
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  34. Shut up. Get drafted
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  35. Some people are thinking of their own interests, some are thinking of what is best for everyone.
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  36. Liar.
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  37. Liar
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  38. What?
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  39. Frankly that's a degree that's easy to fake through. You'd be surprised the things people with terminal degrees don't know.
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  40. It's different, not necessarily worse. Not in America a lot of local politicians try to make headlines because no one knows who the frick they're voting for in local elections. A party list solves that
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  41. Their identities are public knowledge but no one pays attention to them.
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  42. That breaks the law of unity of command
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  43. This goon is calling an alleged problem in the constitution "unconstitutional."
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  44. Take your medicine befire we send you back for shock therapy
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  45. It helped that America wasn't a country until the Civil War
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  46. The system as it is set up necessititates two mainstream candidates
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  47. Not if you know anything
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  48. You wouldn't be happy no matter what they did
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  49. Shut up
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  50. Like... You?
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  51. Constitution revisions only happen at gunpoint
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  52. Liar
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  53. Shut up
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