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First, its technically impossible for a man to have a baby. And even if they could, I can't figure out how that's in anyway related to the topic, unless you are implying that I'm a homophobe in order to discredit my argument?

Second, a civics test would be exactly like Jim Crow, its just that instead of a race based stratification of society, you would have an intellectual/ class based stratification of society. It would be just as tragic. History is full of bad things being done to by people who thought they knew better than everyone else.

Third, yes, I have no problem with people organizing themselves in order to promote a cause or an idea. Its called free speech. Its up to the voters to decide the issues, and with them lies the ultimate responsibility. Much as I like to complain about it, its still the best system worked out so far in the history of mankind, whether I like how the voters do their job or not.

Anyway, you complain about hyperbole and paranoia in one post, and then follow it up with a post full of hyperbole and paranoia. And you seem to be getting angry. So I will leave it there. We can agree to disagree, and all that good stuff. Have fun, fly safe!

BBC?

Isn't that a media company in a country that still has a Monarchy and hereditary nobility?

here's the thing tho, we're approaching "critical mass" in terms of population. as I said above, we don't have enough cake for 7 billion people, and yet people want a bigger, tastier, cake as time goes by, because hell, people always want to go to better, right? you, me, everybody else.

yes, right. planet earth called tho, she can't sustain this much people, so you better start gathering people and gtfo to another planet, or there'll be massive cullings incoming. and it will be something that is going to be self-inflicted, and before you know it, we'll be back to the dark ages.

meanhile the "system" will try to keep things running as they are, using the same policies, all for the sake of keeping everybody calm and the appearance that everything's right.

right until an angry mob knocks at your door because you have running water and they don't.

2! Greg Prince and Barry Paton.

May I have my ballot please, I want to vote for Wayne LaPierre!

well sure, if you live in the mountains as a hermit alone and by yourself.

you see, this is the stupidest thing of them all: we want freedom. we want liberty to do our own thing, but as soon as **** goes south for any reason, we're a bunch headless chickens running around without a proper leader.


why? because we're a social species, and as far as I know, you don't survive by committee.

small correction, equity is a better concept than equality.

equality can sometimes be so stupid that it becomes quite unjust.

the reason why we need a leader it's because we need somebody to blame in case **** goes south.

something goes wrong, and if you have a leader, well, his decisions weren't the right ones, he ****** up, it's his fault.
in the end, no matter how much good you have in you, there's this inherent "darkness" that every human has in them. Granted everybody fights this darker side of them every day, but not everybody wins, nor you can't win every day, and in those days, you'll watch another one and you'll envy him, blame him, scorn him, because it feels better, because it's easier. it wasn't you, it was him, and for a moment no matter how stupid that reasoning is, it feels right and... well, he's a leader, right? he's more exposed, right? he ****** up so he has to pay up.

it comes with the package. people will, inherently, shove responsibility to another one, even in smaller groups because there's always the need for someone to take the initiative and carry the group forward in the critical moments, because.. well, "you don't survive by committee", and that means that that person is the most exposed of all of them. you turn to him for decisions you can't do yourself, and you'll also turn to him for all the fuckups that happen.


it's human nature, and we have to live with it.


TL;DR: we will always need a scapegoat when **** goes south, and the leader-figure is the best scapegoat of them all.

Uh, no.

Yes, yes and yes.



It's not a ruling monarchy though. The queen does have the right/power to say no to a law that parliament has proposed, she very rarely does however.

The hereditary nobility still maintain their power through the House of Lords, where they ratify proposed new laws or amendments to existing ones. Those new laws or amendments come from the House of Commons, the name alone should tell you who they are meant to represent.

It's a complex system, built upon approximately 1000 years of English history.
Almost all of the major changes that have been made to our governing systems have been via invasion, civil war, rebellion and insurrection.

Yah. I had to roll my eyes when their main method was a survey. I don't disagree with the conclusions, we now have rule by bureaucracy which tends to avail itself to elites of one stripe or another. But saying that's "science" is a pretty big stretch. How do you falsify their conclusions when they're "so basically what we think this means is..."?

America is most certainly not a pure democracy. It was originally intended as a Republic with significant components of democracy. Benjamin Franklin said in describing the government he helped create "A Republic, if you can keep it." We didn't keep it.