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{"topics":[{"id":"53640ab76368721494880000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"Mobile washroom\":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GOQyc748gA","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"53641e856368722e915a0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"The Roman Empire was basically the first multicultural empire. ","author":"4fe16df67f123b13e400003f"},{"id":"53641f2d6368723e37420000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53641e856368722e915a0000#post_53641e856368722e915a0000\r\nThat is debatable.\r\nCultures have been influencing each other since the beginning of civilization.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"536420c26368723cb7750100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/53641e856368722e915a0000#post_53641e856368722e915a0000\r\nPretty much.  There's a lot we could learn from the roman empire.\r\n\r\n\r\nDon't expand your borders beyond what you can effectively control, don't overspend to the point you can never pay it off, don't hire mercs for wars, after defeating a enemy country let their own governmental structure remain but at the same time \"talk\" what you want them to do and remove officials you don't want while leaving the governmental structure intact, roads are important, don't outsource your military, taxing the poor to death while the rich have record low taxes is a sure fire way to fuck up your country, a non-effective legislative body is a death sentence, don't start wars you can't win, don't suppress religions cause they don't like that, diplomacy is important, economics is important.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"536421ef63687204bf5a0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/536420c26368723cb7750100#post_536420c26368723cb7750100\r\nIndia has as many religions, gods, ethnicity, and language as they have curry mixtures since ancient times. The subcontinent was a crossroad for different trading cultures back then. Same with Southeast Asia.\r\nThe Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, Western China, is home to several archeological findings of different cultures.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"536423b96368725504ae0200","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/536420c26368723cb7750100#post_536420c26368723cb7750100\r\nI always like how it's never \"low taxes\" but is \"don't tax the poor, tax the rich\"\r\n\r\n","author":"4fe16df67f123b13e400003f"},{"id":"5364249f6368720a45bf0100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/536423b96368725504ae0200#post_536423b96368725504ae0200\r\nTaxes are a pain in the ass to figure out.  Gotta pay those bills somehow, but gotta pay them even when it's a recession or depression and balance it with import taxes, business taxes and so forth.  It's like trying to balance four spinning plates all at the same time.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"536427bf63687227c30f0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/5364249f6368720a45bf0100#post_5364249f6368720a45bf0100\r\nsimplified tax codes are generally good.\r\nAnd taxation cannot pay for the government's bills at this point. Even if they liquidated everything in the country they would not pay off the deficit.\r\n\r\nSame with paying for services, if they liquidated everything the 1% owned it would only pay for 20 years of social services.","author":"4fe16df67f123b13e400003f"},{"id":"5364295c63687215ae5a0100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/536427bf63687227c30f0000#post_536427bf63687227c30f0000\r\nI think that's the one thing everyone can agree on.\r\n\r\nI really hope that in 2016 whoever wins they'll win and their party will win enough seats that they'll finally start working on this.  At this point it's going to take decades upon decades for whoever wins to fix all the shit that has piled up the last coup