I only counted the ballots. If the people who don't vote disapprove, then they need to raise their voices, otherwise they get written off, rightly or wrongly, as lazy and apathetic.
Actually, it is. Reelection rates were pretty much the same back then as they are now, about 90%. Despite all our fancy internet, we are making very little, if any, progress in governance.
About the only thing that has changed dramatically since then is airline safety. So, at least the government is doing something worthwhile
Voting is for the birds, too many idiots voting our rights away, better to throw everybody's name into a hat and put the lucky winner under the Sword of Damocles.
Do some ride-alongs with cops and see the entire story.
A few friends of mine have. They said these new patrol cars have very little legroom, and that's it's very hard to sit comfortably with their hands tied behind their back.
When it comes to encryption you're either going to trust somebody...
Yes, but the state, never again. Its soul is permanently blacken by its corruption. The only way they can get any trust now is if it is dissolved and is completely replaced with entirely new people, and those people should know they only get one chance. Never give the state the benefit of a doubt. They will invariably abuse it.
Regardless, communism never existed outside the textbooks. The feeble and distorted attempt to make it happen does not count. It is a theory that does not take natural biological tendencies of humans into account.
Well, I don't know what they teach you kids in schools these days, but in my time, words used to have definitive meaning that would pass through generations. Maybe that doesn't jibe with all your "living document" BS. Communism is a political theory. It exists only in books, not in life.
Well, at least you have the old cold warriors modding up your little troll post there. But... you're still wrong. Everybody has a price. The process of agreement is capitalism, even in the most dictatorial, communist, fascist regime you can find. There is no other way to exchange goods and services. Even with a gun, which you have to pay someone to make for you, you still have to pay someone, or an army to pull the trigger. That is capitalism.
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If you vote democrat or republican you are part of that 98%.
I only counted the ballots. If the people who don't vote disapprove, then they need to raise their voices, otherwise they get written off, rightly or wrongly, as lazy and apathetic.
This wasn't the same in the 70s and 80s...
Actually, it is. Reelection rates were pretty much the same back then as they are now, about 90%. Despite all our fancy internet, we are making very little, if any, progress in governance.
About the only thing that has changed dramatically since then is airline safety. So, at least the government is doing something worthwhile
2012 election... 51.1% democrat + 47.2% republican = 98.3%
I'm off by 0.3%. Sue me...
Congressional reelection rate around 91%
Yes, the voters most definitely approve, despite all their whining.
98% of the voters approve... You gotta give them what they ask for, or they might end up voting for somebody else, right?
Start of immigration to a better country for you.
Better than Australia? I don't know...
Do we really care about the law anymore? The singular universal rule these days is, *Don't get caught - Burn the tapes*
I think it would be cool to go 45mph from one floor to the next, provided the elevator is well padded.
Voting is for the birds, too many idiots voting our rights away, better to throw everybody's name into a hat and put the lucky winner under the Sword of Damocles.
Silly me, here I am thinking the article was about the US...
Do some ride-alongs with cops and see the entire story.
A few friends of mine have. They said these new patrol cars have very little legroom, and that's it's very hard to sit comfortably with their hands tied behind their back.
He's a roofer on the Death Star..
*Charlie didn't kill anybody. He just drove the getaway car*
A welder working on bridges in the US cannot have his/her job sent off shore.
Low paid Immigrants bring the mountain to Mohammed...
Yes
When it comes to encryption you're either going to trust somebody...
Yes, but the state, never again. Its soul is permanently blacken by its corruption. The only way they can get any trust now is if it is dissolved and is completely replaced with entirely new people, and those people should know they only get one chance. Never give the state the benefit of a doubt. They will invariably abuse it.
They're making phonograph needles...
Sorry man, trust is gone. You can't regain your virginity.
Why can't AT&T just buy Google?
With any state authority these days, as their true nature slowly becomes exposed, you have to assume the worst.
Regardless, communism never existed outside the textbooks. The feeble and distorted attempt to make it happen does not count. It is a theory that does not take natural biological tendencies of humans into account.
Then you admit that communism will never, ever truly be possible...
That's why capitalism works...
And you never heard me state otherwise in either case. I simply said that all systems are capitalist, merely an observation, not an opinion.
Well, I don't know what they teach you kids in schools these days, but in my time, words used to have definitive meaning that would pass through generations. Maybe that doesn't jibe with all your "living document" BS. Communism is a political theory. It exists only in books, not in life.
Well, at least you have the old cold warriors modding up your little troll post there. But... you're still wrong. Everybody has a price. The process of agreement is capitalism, even in the most dictatorial, communist, fascist regime you can find. There is no other way to exchange goods and services. Even with a gun, which you have to pay someone to make for you, you still have to pay someone, or an army to pull the trigger. That is capitalism.
The Soviet Union was not communist. Like China it was state run capitalism. All countries are capitalist, with varying degrees of openness.
I'm super rich! Why? Because I'm not in debt.