Francis Fukuyama: "The Origins of the State: China and India"

Francis Fukuyama, director of the International Development Program, discussed this topic as part of his lecture series entitled, "Getting to Denmark: Where the State, Rule of Law and Accountable Government Come From."

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[swiftyg69]

@TimeGod12

Oh people do get locked up for speaking out against not just the US government but the autocratic, despotic regimes sponsored and funded by the US - Bradley Manning. I'm not saying the Chinese system is a benevolent democracy, it certainly isn't, but I imagine you'd attach our 'individualist' free market principles to our great democracy now wouldn't you?

[snakeweirdo]

@TimeGod12 It's illegal under the sodomy act.

I am not going offtopic, I am just commenting on your ridiculous statement that you're more free.

Oh and I wish weed was legal, so I could buy it cheaper.

[TimeGod12]

@snakeweirdo Are you smoking weed or are you high while typing this absurd nonsense? No its not illegal.

And try not to go off-topic of the video which is about state origins.

[snakeweirdo]

@TimeGod12 Yet, having gay sex is illegal in most states.

[TimeGod12]

@snakeweirdo WHAT? We have a "dont ask, dont tell" policy in military where gays can work freely in military and even criticize the government if there is anything wrong in USA.

I dont know where you heard that we prosecute innocent people for no reason.

[snakeweirdo]

@TimeGod12 But you still prosecute gays. You're not more free than China.

[jeffofsandiego]

So basically India has been messy, disorganized, squabbling, incompetent, and chaotic for thousands of years.

[nonconservative]

@TimeGod12 tribunals, guantanamo bay, waterboarding, insert more hypocrisy here...

[TimeGod12]

@assassinm4 Atleast people in USA dont get locked up in jail for criticizing or questioning their government unlike China where people get arrested and have their human rights denied by the Communist government on a massive level along with Google and media censorship.

Why would u assume things about me when u haven't even met me? Idiotic arguments can prove ur not smart.



[assassinm4]

@TimeGod12 lol i couldnt stop laughing at your annotation "hegemonic imperialist". I can tell without saying you are a republican living in a republican state. study some politics and wake up to the world. it's not a realist world anymore. and hegemonic imperialist applies better to the country that started wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Looking at how corrupted the current US congress I'd rather have something else than that.