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856 [lbo-talk] Why aren't the poor storming the barricades? -- rank: 300

What's encouraging about this sort of talk is that the rich are nervous, unsettled, frightened even. They know that the situation is wrong, that their obscene advantages are unjust, that the situation is unsustainable, and the reckoning is coming. There is a lot of sociopathic après moi, la deluge,mand ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Feb 13 23:11:53 PST 2014

857 [lbo-talk] Query on Roman Empire -- rank: 300

So, when the ordinary person in the Empire used the word "Romans" (or whatever the word was for them in their language), that basically had more of a sense of people with citizenship and the corresponding high status than it had what we today would think of as an "ethnic" or ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 13 04:37:31 PDT 2007

858 [lbo-talk] Query on Roman Empire -- rank: 300

I think the weight of scholarship supports the "decentralized" position for the Western Empire. A lot of the later Emperors did come from the peripheries. Some of them ruled only very briefly. The amount of control that Rome, including an Emperor, could ever exert over the provinces was very low compared ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Apr 12 12:08:58 PDT 2007

859 [lbo-talk] Query on Roman Empire -- rank: 300

... elite generally. SR -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Jerry Monaco" <monacojerry at gmail.com> But Chris's original question was how "integrated" was ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Thu Apr 12 11:20:56 PDT 2007

860 [lbo-talk] My Aristotle rant, was: Re: Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN -- rank: 300

Eudaimonia (WHICH IS NOT HAPPINESS) is the state of being a good (that is, admirable and enviable) person, specifically as understood by 4th century BC Greeks. If you notice the Nicomachean Ethics, like all of Aristotle's works, takes it as a given that the worldview of 4th century BC Greeks ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Mar 26 05:03:14 PDT 2009

861 [lbo-talk] Is World De-Population a Problem? -- rank: 300

... On Wed, 3/25/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote: > From: Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Is World De-Population a ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Mar 25 04:45:46 PDT 2009

862 [lbo-talk] "FemDomDem" and "ObamaGirlSeeksPissSlave" Aren't Going to Get Those Ambassadorships -- rank: 300

My favorite: "Do you recommend Matt X. to be a guerrilla commando jungle warrior, or some goddamn thing?" OR "Do you you have any reason not to recommend him?" OR "Do you not recommend him?" I had no reason not to recommend him, and he got whatever goddamn thing he was ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Thu Nov 13 20:47:24 PST 2008

863 [lbo-talk] "FemDomDem" and "ObamaGirlSeeksPissSlave" Aren't Going to Get Those Ambassadorships -- rank: 300

... reason. --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "FemDomDem" and "ObamaGirlSeeksPissSlave" Aren't ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Nov 13 20:34:24 PST 2008

864 [lbo-talk] Cultural exchange! -- rank: 300

... a lovely so real." ________________________________ From: Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Friday ... 2011 at 1:27 AM, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote: >  . . . And a whole lot of people heart New ...

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Author:	Dissenting Wren
Date:	Fri Aug 19 06:09:01 PDT 2011

865 [lbo-talk] Gay marriage -- rank: 300

... On Thu, 11/13/08, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote: > From: Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Gay marriage > To: lbo-talk ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Nov 13 15:19:54 PST 2008

866 [lbo-talk] Is Obama Running Interference to ProtectBankers' Pay? -- rank: 300

... reinforce them. --- On Mon, 3/23/09, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote: > From: SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Is Obama Running Interference to ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Mar 24 00:41:17 PDT 2009

867 [lbo-talk] Is Obama Running Interference to ProtectBankers' Pay? -- rank: 300

... Mar 2009 12:01:54 +1100 Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:53 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Althusser's long been a whipping boy and ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Mon Mar 23 18:17:27 PDT 2009

868 [lbo-talk] Best and Brightest? -- rank: 300

... at 10:09 AM, John S Costello <joxn.costello at gmail.com>wrote: > Why would Hillary Clinton, who is a Senator ... 10, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Obama could always name Bill Cosby Sec of ...

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Author:	Dorene Cornwell
Date:	Tue Nov 11 10:29:47 PST 2008

869 [lbo-talk] Black Panther Coloring Book -- rank: 300

Alan: "Nowhere. You're an informant now? I thought you were part of a group of more or less like minded folks engaged in collegial or comradish exchanges. I'm not studying you, I'm arguing against you. Jeez." [WS:] Wrong assumption. In case you did not follow this thread from ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Mon Nov 1 08:16:51 PDT 2010

870 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 300

... Global Movement for Clean Energy To: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> <http://www.apolloalliance.org/> Dear Joseph Catron, <http://www ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Fri Apr 6 16:34:53 PDT 2007