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applegrove

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8. +1 And in anthropology they talk about how the state has a monopoly

Reply to Willie Pep (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 19, 2018, 01:15 AM

Apr 2018

on violence. It is illegal for anyone else to use force or for the state to use extrajudicial force in a democracy. All that fear creeps had of nation states and their power has gone out the window with Trump with his attacks on the deep state or against intelligence or policing agencies. And, as a result, we see authoritarians trying to get power everywhere.

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Comey: 'The Republican Party has left me and many others' [View all] applegrove Apr 2018 OP

GOP motives are just more apparent under Trump. The last 40 years applegrove Apr 2018 #1

More than 40. Southern Strategy started with Nixon. Garrett78 Apr 2018 #5

I wish President Clinton had not talked to Lynch on the tarmac. I wish applegrove Apr 2018 #6

Pretty much. Willie Pep Apr 2018 #7

+1 And in anthropology they talk about how the state has a monopoly applegrove Apr 2018 #8

He didnt notice they were abusive assholes until HE was the victim? bettyellen Apr 2018 #2

If he's converting, I welcome him. marble falls Apr 2018 #3

Hell, he was a republican. Blue_true Apr 2018 #4