That to put it on the same plane as the Tanakh and reduce the latter to "the Old Testament" was part of the violence of Christianity The Tanakh being filled with truly ancient poetic language passed down through a complex oral tradition, guarded by an educated priestly class
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Vokaalit and
And was assembled over the course of centuries through an evolutionary process Meanwhile the much shorter "New Testament" is this collection of, basically, letters and essays by a small handful of guys
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Vokaalit and
Huh, this is how I see the American presidential republic vs. the Westminster parliamentary systems of government. One evolved overseen by highly educated people over centuries, while the other was created ad hoc based on the older system by a bunch of colonial bumpkins.
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
Not even bumpkins. A lot of fucking guys, who thought they were better than they were, and created a stupid fucking government.
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Replying to @JSPartisan @arthur_affect and
They took the current form of the Westminster parliamentary system and said "how can we make this more cumbersome & difficult to get anything done while retaining all the bad parts?" while the Westminster parliamentary system went "how can we get rid of some of the bad parts?"
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
The senate, is literally the House of Lords. If the House of Lords had zero rules, and was based around everyone being, “gentlemanly,” to each other. Nothing exemplifies this than the fucking three month transition period bullshit. The Brits do it in a DAY, but we need 3 months?
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Replying to @JSPartisan @arthur_affect and
The American Senate has way more power than the House of Lords. The HoL can't even reject money bills. Also, the amount of power the president has, which was directly based on how much power King George III had. I've seen people say Americans re-elect George III every four years.
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
It has more power, but it literally has more unwritten rules than fucking baseball. It’s nothing but unwritten rules and it’s driven by this idiotic civility. Also, all the damn presidential power was basically held in check, by idiotic civility, then dubya happened, and...
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Replying to @JSPartisan @WenSchw and
There are written rules, in the form of parliamentary procedure, to which the HoL is also subject There are no unwritten rules that are inherent to the American system; there are unwritten rules that are inherent to the bipartisan consensus, which exist in every system
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Replying to @epistemophagy @JSPartisan and
And the consensus is bipartisan even in systems which are superficially multipartisan Look, again, at Australia — there are about seven parties in each chamber and they make up a decent portion of the legislature, but most Australians would agree they have a two-party system
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Taiwan explicitly works this way - there are many parties, including tiny single issue parties, but the parties are officially sorted into two coalitions labeled by color, the Pan-Blue Coalition (conservative) and Pan-Green Coalition (progressive)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JSPartisan and
Each one being led by one big party (the Pan-Blue Coalition is led by the KMT, the Chinese Nationalist Party, the Pan-Green Coalition is led by the DPP, the Democratic Progressive Party) whose names are usually just used synecdochically for the coalitions in the news
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JSPartisan and
It's funny because there is an actual Green Party, as part of the international "Green Party movement", that does caucus with the Pan-Green Coalition, but is not what it's named after and is not very important in it
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