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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
"Idiocy" is an apt choice of words, because the past four years have certainly demonstrated just how many people are unfit to participate in the democratic process
Edited by Reflextion on Oct 8th 2020 at 9:50:18 AM
Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.The GOP wants to consolidate power into the hands of the wealthy, disenfranchise women and minorities, and eliminate taxes for themselves. They don't care overmuch about the mechanism through which that occurs; they'll support whatever they have to in order to arrive at that goal.
But since democracy is fundamentally irreconcilable with the consolidation of power into fewer hands, they're not fans. They'll pay it lip service when they need to, but the idea of One Person = One Vote stands in stark opposition to everything they're about.
The guy from Innuendo Studios put this best, I think: they want wealth to be the deciding factor in who controls the United States. They want people voting with their dollar, because then people with more dollars get more votes.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 8th 2020 at 6:55:08 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.![]()
No , "idiocy" is what I meant.
("Idio-" = "Indicating peculiarity, isolation or that which pertains to an individual person or thing")
And what are they trying to turn America into?
The "States of Trump".
And considering his motto is "I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY AT ALL!", then there is not a hint of governance of sort in it, not making it adding a "-cracy" in the slightest.
Edited by TitanJump on Oct 8th 2020 at 4:09:20 PM
YOOOOOOOOO I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE TO THINK UP THAT JOKE.
Edited by Aszur on Oct 8th 2020 at 8:08:02 PM
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesI think you mean idiocracy, which has been suggested by some commentators already.
Which was already the plot of a movie some years ago - except the idiots in said movie were still smarter than the Trumpets because the minute a more intelligent and educated person showed up, they put them in charge of fixing stuff.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Oct 8th 2020 at 4:10:47 PM
We learn from history that we do not learn from history![]()
Reminds me of the time How Did This Get Made? asked people to briefly change Stellan Skarsgård's name to "Stellar Skateboard" when they noticed that's what his name auto corrected to.
Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 8th 2020 at 7:12:00 AM
x2 According to his tweets (through this Politico Article): "staging an attempted coup
". He's also called for Obama and Hillary to be arrested because of said "attempted coup".
I doubt Barr or anyone else will try though; the look alone would be disastrous to Trump, and definitively kill his Presidency.
Edited by DingoWalley1 on Oct 8th 2020 at 10:56:43 AM

I mean, if it means avoiding another shitty debate, I wouldn’t mind. Kills two birds with one stone.