Actions have consequences inversely-proportional to ones' financial/political ability to avoid consequences and proportional to the ability of those with financial/political power to monetize the actions/consequences of others.
Official on what sense? These people have no actual authority. Any decisions stemming from them have equal weight: no moral authority, only the threat of physical violence.
Official in what sense? These people have no actual authority. Any decisions stemming from them have equal weight: no moral authority, only the threat of physical violence.
Legitimate according to a set of rules invented by the very people benefiting from the application of those rules. Hmmmn. I'm sure that's beyond suspicion.
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It's awesome, the way the same model has been successfully (if cynically) applied to multiple domains.
The war on others profiting from drugs.
The war on others committing acts of terror.
The war on non-monetized crime by others.
Actions have consequences inversely-proportional to ones' financial/political ability to avoid consequences and proportional to the ability of those with financial/political power to monetize the actions/consequences of others.
Chafes*
That's barbaric. The rope chafea the neck of the victim!
My company provides velvet-covered rope under a per-rehabilitation-event charging model.
Which other basic human needs can be monetized?
Perhaps we could charge people to see if they can throw politicians* into space, either by hand or using all manner of home-made trebuchets / rockets?
(*) and those politicians collude with against the general population
To create/reinforce an association in the minds of readers that Arabic is the language of math^H^H^H^Hterrorism?
'Reads' lol
Let's remember that voting is meaningless in the sense that it implies no expression of indirect control over society's development whatsoever.
Brawndo. It's got what plants crave.
I guess the three twelve year old girls who smoke hash outside our house whilst wearing hijabs are true mudlims?
Which gives better support, shredded cash or shredded constitution? Maybe a mix.
How does a lifelong right to make closed decisions on public matters protect against corruption?
Specifically, how does it protect against a judge setting up a highest-bidder-gets-their-preferred-verdict system?
Is not illegal because *drumroll* they are collectively deciding what is and isn't illegal.
Yep. In the UK, the equivalent is Northampton County Court - home to electronic kangaroo judges.
Yah; piles of cash probably aren't that comfy.
In WorldGov 2.0, yes.
Please post the coordinates of your place of businesses. What's on the menu?
In which universe are fifteen chicken wings and three sandwiches 'worth' $56 ?
Perhaps in a universe where a monetary threshold dictates the type of acceptable police response?
Illegal unless you're one of the good guys.
Also, do we even have a need for the concept behind the word 'official' in today's world?
Official on what sense? These people have no actual authority. Any decisions stemming from them have equal weight: no moral authority, only the threat of physical violence.
Official in what sense? These people have no actual authority. Any decisions stemming from them have equal weight: no moral authority, only the threat of physical violence.
"I would argue its also the right thing for our government to try to secure 'a good deal' for Americans and American business where it can be hand."
They can still own the good deal without Greengrocers' apostrophes :P
Legitimate according to a set of rules invented by the very people benefiting from the application of those rules. Hmmmn. I'm sure that's beyond suspicion.