Rules for thee, not for me. Fuckem.
Thedogdrinkscoffee
joined 6 months ago
Seems odd. To be consistent, they should jail opposition candidates and stuff ballot boxes and murder traitorous opposition to the one true leader. I propose a new model : The Thunderdome. Two go in, one comes out, until the leader is chosen.
TREE(yomomma)
We were ejected from God's brown hole.
“It is shameful,” wrote an ICE spokesman who declined to be named.
Well, that's everything you needed to know. This is what the 2nd ammendment was for. All enemies foreign and domestic.
While I accept the premise of the article, I find it misdirected. If we weren't watching a national housing crisis, a cost of living crisis, the death of the middle class, the climate crisis, the demographic crisis, the healthcare crisis pile up on Canadians one after the other, no one would want change and would fight to preserve our way of life.
But we went down the yellow brick road of neoliberal plattitudes about free markets and privatization and made offshore tax evasion easy and risk free for wealthy Canadians and multinationals alike.
Even today, there are tremendous forces working hard with big money to privatise one of our most effective, efficient and formerly sacrosanct institutions. Healthcare. What good is not paying directly for a family doctor when you've never had one and can't get one?
Public healthcare was fantastically productive and efficient, and the same voices that decry canada's productivity crisis are happy to keep erroding public healthcare and march in the profiteers knowing full well it will be a disaster.
Happy people don't revolt. You got unhappy people, it will be taken advantage of by your rivals and enemies.
Only if you fail to stop dictionairies from getting into the rooms.
I don't think there is an "or" there.
They are incapable of talking without saying the quiet parts out loud. Silence is better than spilling the beans on evil.
Great post. I wonder what the mental math is for 200 years of industrial civilization for other civs?
Is their planet the same size? Is earth resource rich or poor in comparison? Would abundance exacerbate depletion as it is taken for granted, and would scarcity teach restraint? Is the entire planet fully colonized under exponential growth at the begining or does it happen later as harsher environs are explored?
Is their culture subject to the same ideological pursuits or are they capable of self restraint?
Fascinating topic.
Edit: I just realized that I am fearful of learning the answers for an alien civilization considering our path assumed as relatively unexceptional.
Designing a contest where participants have access to AI, when they aren't supposed to use it and then looking shocked when the inevitable happens.
Either allow a commonly accepted industry tool, or restrict participants for the duration of the testing.
I remember my grade 6 teacher telling me I won't always have a calculator handy. **gestures broadly out the window.
Socialism to them just means "I don't like it and you shouldn't either."