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Old 04-21-2020, 01:10 PM   #5768 (permalink)
Frownland
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Well, this is why I mentioned the plurality. America has a lot of problems getting social policy passed because we're not a homogenous race. But neither is the globe. The Nordics have tiered social safety nets that never get discussed in the US, but you can't Copy&Paste because we're far more tolerant of immigrants in the US, we don't have a similar concept of citizenship, and you have to include many different ethnicities.
There shouldn't really be a global leader, but that doesn't mean that the role copies and pastes their governmental structure into every country. They should let local governments operate and step in when there's human rights violations.

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This is not to mention that maintaining a military capable of enforcing global order
Ja I'm not down with literal global totalitarianism thanks. The largest military force in human history isn't even enough to accomplish global order, doesn't seem like the best approach or maybe it's not even possible.
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