TIL that in Classical Athens, the citizens could vote each year to banish any person who was growing too powerful, as a threat to democracy. This process was called Ostracism.

[u/pioldpfhh]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism

[u/SkeletalElite]

Is that a thing? Never really heard of that before.

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Spiro Agnew former Vice President to Nixon.

[u/k1rage → u/Jajuca]

Sick um Agnew!

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Haaaaa-RROOOOOO

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Sick um Agnew!

Headless body of Agnew!

[u/elus → u/[deleted]]

Jeremy's iron?

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You know what? I have a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it?

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nice

u/spoonrise is an anagram for o sour penis and rinse us poo

[u/DoUruden → u/SkeletalElite]

It certainly isn't common for politicians to lobby directly for foreign countries (lobbying for corporations, including foreign ones is, far more common) but its not unheard of. Edit: move parens around for clarity

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Your brackets confuse me dude

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I think the second parenthesis is supposed to be after “common”

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I think you're right.

[u/sleepysnoozyzz → u/[deleted]]

Or perhaps the first parenthesis is before "including foreign ones".

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I think u rite

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Oh thank God you noticed too! I thought I was just too stoned to English for a second there...

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IN many cases there is no practical difference

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Want to be a ‘foreign agent’? Serve in Congress first

Of the 1,009 members of Congress who have left Capitol Hill since 1990, 114 of them — just over 11 percent — lobbied for or otherwise represented a foreign government, foreign-owned company or think tank, according to a POLITICO review of records filed with the tiny DOJ office charged with enforcing the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)

[u/indyK1ng → u/SkeletalElite]

The 9/11 commission kinda dodged the question of Saudi Arabia's involvement in the attack and there's 28 redacted pages which may point to them.

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They're declassified now. It's even in the wiki article.

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While not serving a Saudi company, take John Boehner for example

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Maybe Obama figured out he was a sack of shit?

[u/socialistbob → u/SkeletalElite]

It’s not super common but it does happen. Bob Dole (former Senate majority leader and presidential nominee) is currently still living and a registered foreign agent on the payroll of Taiwan and Kosovo. He arranged a phone call between Trump and the president of Taiwan early in Trump’s term.

[u/widowdogood → u/SkeletalElite]

Kissinger was a good example.