It is March 1965. A cold clear morning in Washington DC and my hosts have taken me on a tour of various monuments in a city full of them. The Iwo Jima Monument…
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Yeah nah, Jefferson was a slave owner. Not sure we need his vision as a model for anything.
Facts. And full prisons, crumbling infrastructure. No thanks.
Interesting read but tbh we've got our own Treaty framework, why are we looking at some dead American?
fair point about the Treaty, but it's more about collective rights innit?
lol imagine thinking the US has any answers for us in 2026. Get real.
don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The idea of individual rights is still worth protecting.
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FFS another academic wankfest about how we're not as free as Americans. Do we really want their level of gun nuts and healthcare bankruptcies? Yeah nah.
sorry, I'm with Noah on this one. Can't separate the man from his legacy when it's that ugly.
I think there's something to be said for enshrining individual liberties in a written constitution though. At least then they can't be stripped away by a simple majority.
lol cope, we've got the Bill of Rights Act it's fine
Jefferson's 'liberty' didn't extend to his slaves mate. Hard pass on importing that hypocrisy.
to the All Blacks mate, leave the philosophy to the adults
What a load of shit. Our system works fine without borrowing their myths.
Also cold morning in March? It's July here and freezing. Maybe focus on our own weather instead of dead yanks.
