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    Quote Originally Posted by McRocket View Post
    Can you ever, fucking stop trolling?

    And if you must troll?
    Can you not think of a new ad hominem besides your tired, old 'you are stupid' one that you use ad nauseum?

    Shit...you are not even a creative troll, for fuck's sake.
    Never has yet, truly obnoxious arsehole.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
    Never has yet, truly obnoxious arsehole.
    I believe you.

    Lots of people troll on chat forums....as you must know.
    But this guy REALLY caught my eye in this thread he started:

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...53#post4863653

    People who write off - on both sides of the aisle - EVERYONE on the other side are creepy.
    They are trying to belittle human beings for no other reason than the person they voted for.
    That is borderline Stalinist stuff, IMO.

    I know it's corny...but EVERYONE has some merit.
    Some opinion worthy of listening to.
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    I got to get to my double feature move but

    So y'all, it's time to accept reality and give up America for lost. Toss out your red MAGA caps, put away your "Stars and Stripes" flags, your Tump pins and all your Red-White and Blue paraphenalia. America will never be great again, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either a fool or a liar. America is rotting from above and below, vermin are calling the shots from on high, and human detritus is pouring over the border.THIS IS PRECISELY HOW ANCIENT ROME FELL
    is all correct.
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

    DARK AGES SUCK!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dachshund View Post
    After 1776, when they began to think seriously about what form of government would be best for America, the Founding Fathers of America were extremely impressed with the ancient Greek system of government we call democracy. The ancient Greek city state (or polis) of Athens is credited with implementing a system of government of and by the people whereby eligible citizens would congregate to make decisions. They called this system demokratica It was, in fact, one man, an ancient Athenian lawgiver called Cleisthenes, who is recognized as the Father of Athenian Democracy. It was Cleisthenes who, in 508 BC, personally reformed the constitution of ancient Athens to set it upon a distinctively democratic footing.




    Although American democracy was inspired by ancient Athenian democracy, in the year 2022, it has very little in common with the later. My argument is that America's original system of democratic governance has now morphed into a degenerate, bastardized (an immoral) form of democracy that I would call [B]"Industrial Democracy"[B]. To explain my point, I'll need to start with a quick overview of the primary characteristics of ancient Athenian democracy...





    HOW DID DEMOCRACY WORK IN ANCIENT ATHENS ?




    First of all, Athens was a ancient Greek city state (orpolis) that was pretty small by today's standards. It had a population of 300,000 at most, and that included many slaves and foreigners. Of this number, the only formal citizens were adult, native born, white, males; who numbered about 30,000 or one tenth of the overall population. These citizens - the demos, the people - were the formal basis of political power, rather than some wealthy ruling elite (such as oligarchs or plutocrats) or some tyrannical dictator (such as existed in some other ancient Greek states).




    In the Athenian democratic system of government there were no elections. All leadership positions (apart from the military) were chosen by lot, at random, from among the citizens who had put their own names forward. This even included the Leader of the Assembly - the collected body of citizens - who was basically the President of the nation (though he really didn't have much formal power). The ancient Athenians invented a device called a kleroterion into which the names were randomly inserted on little tokens; coloured dice were then used to select names randomly and fairly from among the various tribes and families. The system had several advantages: immediate results; no costly or corrupted election campaigns; fairness; transparency and an equal involvement of all concerned. The citizens of ancient Athens clearly had to be nice to each other, anyone of whom could someday hold a position of prominence.





    Unlike America, ancient Athenian democracy was DIRECT democracy, there were no representatives. Once a month, all interested citizens gathered on a large, open hilltop (called thepnyx) to listen to the issues of the day. When the time came for decisions, the outcome was determined by a very public show of hands. Even big, grave issues like going to war were decided this way.




    Altogether ancient Athenian democracy was simply TOO COOL 4 SKOOL !. It was SMALL, ACCOUNTABLE, DIRECT, and totally TRANSPARENT. Women were not allowed to participate in the democratic process, nor were foreign races/ethic groups; ancient Athenian democracy was a strictly racial (White European), ethnic (native-born Athenian) and gendered (male only) system of government. Shortly after democratic governance was established in ancient Athens, it was greatly strengthened by the legendary, Athenian, statesman Pericles (495 - 429 BC). The period during which Pericles lead the city state is known as the "Golden Age of Athens" During the "Golden Age" there was a remarkable blossoming of high culture the likes of which the world has never seen again. The magnificent achievements of the ancient Greeks in education, art, architecture, sculpture, philosophy, playwrighting/theatre, mathematics, poetry, history, medicine and the like, laid the foundation for Western civilization. I think one of the reasons the "Golden Age" took place was the fact that (1) their system of democracy prevented women from meddling in political affairs of the city state, and (2) it did not allow foreign individuals, persons who were not native - born, (White European), Athenian citizens to participate in the democratic process.HOW VERY, VERY WISE !!





    Democracy must have worked quite well in classical Athens. As I mentioned above, it was instituted in 508 BC by Cleisthenes, and not that long after strengthened and developed under the leadership of Pericles, an Athenian statesman who was a fierce advocate of democracy. During the period of Pericles leadership of the Athenian city state there was a magnificent blossoming and flourishing of culture in what is called "Golden Age of Athens". So dazzlingly brilliant were the accomplishments of Athenian: philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Socraties), tragic dramatists ( Sopochles, Aeshylus, Euripides), Physicians (like Hippocrates - "The Father of Medicine"), Architecture (Ictinus, Callicrates), Sculptors (Phidias), Hisory (Heroditus, Thucdides) Mathematics (Pythagoras), Science (Democritus) etc; they are all revered and studied to this day, some 2000 years later. The "Golden Age of Pericles" was the zenith of human cultural achievement. There have never been anything like it since.






    So my point is that ancient Athenian democracy must have had something going for it, if it was the system of government in place during the "Golden Age of Pericles". Because If the democratic political system in classical Athens was dysfunctional, chaotic, oppressive or seriously flawed in some other way, I don't think that the extraordinary advances in culture and the great amplitude of Athenian power could have taken place. Despite this, Athenian democracy had some very harsh critics in its day, in particular two of the city states prominent philosophers: Plato and Socrates. They had various objections to democracy, so in order to keep things brief I just outline one of Plato's criticisms (because Plato is still regarded by many authoritative classical scholars as being the West's greatest ever philosopher).





    PLATO'S MAJOR BEEF WITH DEMOCRACY











    Plato's primary objection to democracy as a system of government was that it violates the proper order of society by creating a false equality. He argues that this makes it a fundamentally IRRATIONAL form of constitution. It is based on the unjustifiable and frankly absurd assumption that EVERY CITIZEN IS EQUALLY ENTITLED TO PARTICIPATE IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS, no matter how unsuited he is in terms of ability, character, training, intelligence, personal morality and so on. HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT EQUAL IN ANY RESPECT - PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, EXISTENTIAL, etc; WHATSOEVER If you believe that they are then you are BARKING MAD. OF COURSE they are not f**king EQUAL. MODERN SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND COMMON SENSE, HAVE ALL COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION. Human equality is a fallacy and democracy or any other political ideology grounded on that notion are doomed to fail. What it boils down to - to put it bluntly - is that within the population of 30,000 or so of citizens allowed to vote in ancient Athens, there is bound to be a fair share of: dunces, dimwits, ignorami, borderline or actual retards, bat-shit crazy fools, thugs, moral degenerates/deviants, major ass-holes and so on. Really, these individuals should - for obvious reasons - not be allowed to vote, but in a democratic system of government THEY ARE, and to add to the insanity, THEIR VOTES CARRY THE SAME VALUE as that of those citizens who are: well educated; intelligent; politically well-informed; judicious, responsible; more virtuous (generally speaking); more civilized, and in possession of greater wisdom, etc. And it gets worse because these citizens typically form a minority of the electorate.










    Whitey Americans seem to have this weird, irrational "faith" in the notion that "all men are created equal." Maybe its a creedal thing from Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence"? I'm not sure, but they definately appear have this misty - eyed, delusional belief in the idea, and they are allergic to anyone who tells them it's a total pile of horse manure. So, i you're one of these Whitey Yanks is convinced that "all men are created equal" and this justifies America's "one vote-one value" democratic system of government, and Plato's objection I have sketched out above is bullshit, i have eight words for you....PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS





    DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA TODAY





    In 1776, the Founding Fathers began to think seriously about what system of government would be best for America. They all had a good education in the major works of classical antiquity, and it turned out that they were very impressed indeed by the democratic model that had been adopted by the ancient Athenians. So they decided to use its core principles for the government of America. Fast forwarding now to the 21st century, America is still a democracy, but...democracy in the US today has variations on the original democratic theme that are so remote from the Athenian original that they hardly deserve the same name. American democracy has lost all the virtues of the original, but retained all of its vices. DEMOCRACY IN THE US TODAY HAS DEVOLVED INTO A VULGAR PERVERSION THAT HAS COME TO BE KNOWN AS "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY."





    "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY"





    The primary characteristics of "Industrial Democracy" are the following...





    (1) REPRESENTATIVE (CONGRESSIONAL) SYSTEM - THERE IS NO DIRECT PARTICIPATION.

    (2) UNIVERSAL SUFFERAGE - ALL ADULTS CAN VOTE, INCLUDING WOMEN, FOREIGN, NON-WHITE (WESTERN EUROPEAN) MIGRANT, AND EVEN
    ILLEGAL MIGRANTS.

    (3) MULTI-RACIAL - ALL RACES CAN VOTE: HISPANICS, BLACKS, NATIVE INDIANS, ARABS, PAKISTANIS, ASIANS, and so on.

    (4) UNLIMITED POPULATION SIZE.

    (5) FINANCIALLY CORRUPT, MONEYED INTERESTS HOLD GREAT SWAY (for example, the Jewish lobby).


    Each of these principles is diametrically opposed to the original Athenian model of democracy.



    To continue...




    In America, citizens who vote typically only do so for a handful of candidates, or on a very limited number of referenda. His/her representation is scaled down by a factor of 1000s or milillions; for example, the largest American state, California, with somewhere around 40 million people, gets all of two Senators.




    If you've ever wondered why the intellectual plane of American political campaigns is now lower than a snake's belly (recall "Blow-Hole" Joe's scintillating displays of cerbral prowess on the 3 or 4 occasions he was dragged out of his basement to publicly campaign as a Presidential candidate in 2020; it was like watching a stunned mullet utter a quick handful of fatuous platitudes, then abruptly disappear back into its swamp - real MENSA stuff ! The reason the standard has fallen so low is because in America every nut-case, every ignorant buffon, every chuckle-headed dolt, every feeble-minded fool, every sub-80 IQ nit-wit gets his or her vote. Moreover these persons apparantly form the majority of the US electorate. The intelligent, informed, thoughtful , common - sensical, prudent voters are a minority.





    "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY" IS RULE BY MONEY"





    The vast size and scale of representation in America ensures that billions of corrupting dollars flow through the system, "tainting" even the most virtuous of law-makers, and guaranteeing a flood of corrupt , corporate media propaganda and "Fake News". "Industrial democracy is ruled by money and the will to spend it. So, who are the main players in America's "Industrial Democracy"? Well, as a matter of fact it's the Jewish Lobby, which contributes at least 50% of Democratic campaign funds and at least 25% of Republican funds (if you don't believe that, check it out for yourself, dude, - you've got a lap-top !).Wealthy American Jews spend literally 100s of millions of dollars on campaigns, ads, donations and various other political activities, all, of course, to influence the outcome in their favoured direction. The Athenian ancients would be appalled to see what their cherished democracy has come to.





    Today America is on the brink of degenerating into tyranny of various forms. Plato would not be surprised in the slightest. America now has tyrannies of the rich, tyrannies of the Judeocracy and tyrannies of "Big Tech", all vying for power, all cooperating as needed to make sure that nothing like accountable and transparent government ever comes to pass. The primary objective of the rich is to stay that way, and to maintain or broaden the wealth gap disparity between themselves and the masses. The larger the wealth differential the more (relative) power they hold.





    A key objective of the rich power elite is to weaken and damage America's national psyche sufficiently, and to radically diversify and deplete the nation genetically, so that they can maintain maximum control without completely destroying the capacity of the national economy to produce wealth. Sadly, America has now been completely enveloped by this insidious and degenerate form of government. The US is currently ruled by the lowest, most depraved and incompetent individuals imaginable. At the same time it is being swamped by the virtual scum of humanity - in June of 2021 alone, over 212,000 arrests ( or as the government's euphemistic propaganda calls them - "encounters") occurred at the Southern Border. Exactly how many more evaded "encounter" and entered the US illegally no one knows. To these numbers we must add the "legal" immigration of non- White, non-NorthWestern European individual who INEVITABLY change the character of the nation (cf: "Mexifornia" a disgusting shit-hole, which was once America's "Golden State"). The combined effect is dramatic. America, according to a recent study, now has an astonishing 44 million people who are foreign - born, of which just 75% are legal and 25% illegal. Nearly half of those millions were born in just 5 countries: Mexico; China; India;the Phillipines and El Salvador. (and surely not more than a percent or two of these 44 million are White Western European).





    The bottom line folks is that the grand edifice that is America is collapsing as we speak !




    So y'all, it's time to accept reality and give up America for lost. Toss out your red MAGA caps, put away your "Stars and Stripes" flags, your Tump pins and all your Red-White and Blue paraphenalia. America will never be great again, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either a fool or a liar. America is rotting from above and below, vermin are calling the shots from on high, and human detritus is pouring over the border.THIS IS PRECISELY HOW ANCIENT ROME FELL




    Dachshund



    DLM....Dachshund Lives Matter !
    A bunch of hypertensive bullshit and anti-American delusions. Well, you need not worry about this bullshit at leaving your hatred of America at the border when it comes to the liberty to LEAVE or never come to it at being a worthless and useless parasite!

    This Election, Democracy Won

    In a year where little has gone right, the United States held a free, fair, and secure election during the darkest of times.
    https://www.brennancenter.org/our-wo...-democracy-won

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    Eat shit Aussie, you will never have anything to do with America
    Since when is a mixed-race Jew an American ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    I'm with ya. In an effort to avoid mob rule, they created the opposite problem. Some say that's the difference between a republic and a democracy. No matter what you call it, it's not right. Minority rule is worse for the nation than the other.
    You are such a tragic dimwit.... One of the points I was making in my OP is that people like you who may be formal citizens in a democratic nation like America ought not be entitled to vote, regards; on account of their stupidity/ignorance.

    And your are ingnorant, because any American with an IQ over 85 should know that...


    A Repulic IS a representative democracy.


    Suck...it...up...sister !



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    Quote Originally Posted by Dachshund View Post
    After 1776, when they began to think seriously about what form of government would be best for America, the Founding Fathers of America were extremely impressed with the ancient Greek system of government we call democracy. The ancient Greek city state (or polis) of Athens is credited with implementing a system of government of and by the people whereby eligible citizens would congregate to make decisions. They called this system demokratica It was, in fact, one man, an ancient Athenian lawgiver called Cleisthenes, who is recognized as the Father of Athenian Democracy. It was Cleisthenes who, in 508 BC, personally reformed the constitution of ancient Athens to set it upon a distinctively democratic footing.




    Although American democracy was inspired by ancient Athenian democracy, in the year 2022, it has very little in common with the later. My argument is that America's original system of democratic governance has now morphed into a degenerate, bastardized (an immoral) form of democracy that I would call [B]"Industrial Democracy"[B]. To explain my point, I'll need to start with a quick overview of the primary characteristics of ancient Athenian democracy...





    HOW DID DEMOCRACY WORK IN ANCIENT ATHENS ?




    First of all, Athens was a ancient Greek city state (orpolis) that was pretty small by today's standards. It had a population of 300,000 at most, and that included many slaves and foreigners. Of this number, the only formal citizens were adult, native born, white, males; who numbered about 30,000 or one tenth of the overall population. These citizens - the demos, the people - were the formal basis of political power, rather than some wealthy ruling elite (such as oligarchs or plutocrats) or some tyrannical dictator (such as existed in some other ancient Greek states).




    In the Athenian democratic system of government there were no elections. All leadership positions (apart from the military) were chosen by lot, at random, from among the citizens who had put their own names forward. This even included the Leader of the Assembly - the collected body of citizens - who was basically the President of the nation (though he really didn't have much formal power). The ancient Athenians invented a device called a kleroterion into which the names were randomly inserted on little tokens; coloured dice were then used to select names randomly and fairly from among the various tribes and families. The system had several advantages: immediate results; no costly or corrupted election campaigns; fairness; transparency and an equal involvement of all concerned. The citizens of ancient Athens clearly had to be nice to each other, anyone of whom could someday hold a position of prominence.





    Unlike America, ancient Athenian democracy was DIRECT democracy, there were no representatives. Once a month, all interested citizens gathered on a large, open hilltop (called thepnyx) to listen to the issues of the day. When the time came for decisions, the outcome was determined by a very public show of hands. Even big, grave issues like going to war were decided this way.




    Altogether ancient Athenian democracy was simply TOO COOL 4 SKOOL !. It was SMALL, ACCOUNTABLE, DIRECT, and totally TRANSPARENT. Women were not allowed to participate in the democratic process, nor were foreign races/ethic groups; ancient Athenian democracy was a strictly racial (White European), ethnic (native-born Athenian) and gendered (male only) system of government. Shortly after democratic governance was established in ancient Athens, it was greatly strengthened by the legendary, Athenian, statesman Pericles (495 - 429 BC). The period during which Pericles lead the city state is known as the "Golden Age of Athens" During the "Golden Age" there was a remarkable blossoming of high culture the likes of which the world has never seen again. The magnificent achievements of the ancient Greeks in education, art, architecture, sculpture, philosophy, playwrighting/theatre, mathematics, poetry, history, medicine and the like, laid the foundation for Western civilization. I think one of the reasons the "Golden Age" took place was the fact that (1) their system of democracy prevented women from meddling in political affairs of the city state, and (2) it did not allow foreign individuals, persons who were not native - born, (White European), Athenian citizens to participate in the democratic process.HOW VERY, VERY WISE !!





    Democracy must have worked quite well in classical Athens. As I mentioned above, it was instituted in 508 BC by Cleisthenes, and not that long after strengthened and developed under the leadership of Pericles, an Athenian statesman who was a fierce advocate of democracy. During the period of Pericles leadership of the Athenian city state there was a magnificent blossoming and flourishing of culture in what is called "Golden Age of Athens". So dazzlingly brilliant were the accomplishments of Athenian: philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Socraties), tragic dramatists ( Sopochles, Aeshylus, Euripides), Physicians (like Hippocrates - "The Father of Medicine"), Architecture (Ictinus, Callicrates), Sculptors (Phidias), Hisory (Heroditus, Thucdides) Mathematics (Pythagoras), Science (Democritus) etc; they are all revered and studied to this day, some 2000 years later. The "Golden Age of Pericles" was the zenith of human cultural achievement. There have never been anything like it since.






    So my point is that ancient Athenian democracy must have had something going for it, if it was the system of government in place during the "Golden Age of Pericles". Because If the democratic political system in classical Athens was dysfunctional, chaotic, oppressive or seriously flawed in some other way, I don't think that the extraordinary advances in culture and the great amplitude of Athenian power could have taken place. Despite this, Athenian democracy had some very harsh critics in its day, in particular two of the city states prominent philosophers: Plato and Socrates. They had various objections to democracy, so in order to keep things brief I just outline one of Plato's criticisms (because Plato is still regarded by many authoritative classical scholars as being the West's greatest ever philosopher).





    PLATO'S MAJOR BEEF WITH DEMOCRACY











    Plato's primary objection to democracy as a system of government was that it violates the proper order of society by creating a false equality. He argues that this makes it a fundamentally IRRATIONAL form of constitution. It is based on the unjustifiable and frankly absurd assumption that EVERY CITIZEN IS EQUALLY ENTITLED TO PARTICIPATE IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS, no matter how unsuited he is in terms of ability, character, training, intelligence, personal morality and so on. HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT EQUAL IN ANY RESPECT - PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, EXISTENTIAL, etc; WHATSOEVER If you believe that they are then you are BARKING MAD. OF COURSE they are not f**king EQUAL. MODERN SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND COMMON SENSE, HAVE ALL COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION. Human equality is a fallacy and democracy or any other political ideology grounded on that notion are doomed to fail. What it boils down to - to put it bluntly - is that within the population of 30,000 or so of citizens allowed to vote in ancient Athens, there is bound to be a fair share of: dunces, dimwits, ignorami, borderline or actual retards, bat-shit crazy fools, thugs, moral degenerates/deviants, major ass-holes and so on. Really, these individuals should - for obvious reasons - not be allowed to vote, but in a democratic system of government THEY ARE, and to add to the insanity, THEIR VOTES CARRY THE SAME VALUE as that of those citizens who are: well educated; intelligent; politically well-informed; judicious, responsible; more virtuous (generally speaking); more civilized, and in possession of greater wisdom, etc. And it gets worse because these citizens typically form a minority of the electorate.










    Whitey Americans seem to have this weird, irrational "faith" in the notion that "all men are created equal." Maybe its a creedal thing from Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence"? I'm not sure, but they definately appear have this misty - eyed, delusional belief in the idea, and they are allergic to anyone who tells them it's a total pile of horse manure. So, i you're one of these Whitey Yanks is convinced that "all men are created equal" and this justifies America's "one vote-one value" democratic system of government, and Plato's objection I have sketched out above is bullshit, i have eight words for you....PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS





    DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA TODAY





    In 1776, the Founding Fathers began to think seriously about what system of government would be best for America. They all had a good education in the major works of classical antiquity, and it turned out that they were very impressed indeed by the democratic model that had been adopted by the ancient Athenians. So they decided to use its core principles for the government of America. Fast forwarding now to the 21st century, America is still a democracy, but...democracy in the US today has variations on the original democratic theme that are so remote from the Athenian original that they hardly deserve the same name. American democracy has lost all the virtues of the original, but retained all of its vices. DEMOCRACY IN THE US TODAY HAS DEVOLVED INTO A VULGAR PERVERSION THAT HAS COME TO BE KNOWN AS "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY."





    "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY"





    The primary characteristics of "Industrial Democracy" are the following...





    (1) REPRESENTATIVE (CONGRESSIONAL) SYSTEM - THERE IS NO DIRECT PARTICIPATION.

    (2) UNIVERSAL SUFFERAGE - ALL ADULTS CAN VOTE, INCLUDING WOMEN, FOREIGN, NON-WHITE (WESTERN EUROPEAN) MIGRANT, AND EVEN
    ILLEGAL MIGRANTS.

    (3) MULTI-RACIAL - ALL RACES CAN VOTE: HISPANICS, BLACKS, NATIVE INDIANS, ARABS, PAKISTANIS, ASIANS, and so on.

    (4) UNLIMITED POPULATION SIZE.

    (5) FINANCIALLY CORRUPT, MONEYED INTERESTS HOLD GREAT SWAY (for example, the Jewish lobby).


    Each of these principles is diametrically opposed to the original Athenian model of democracy.



    To continue...




    In America, citizens who vote typically only do so for a handful of candidates, or on a very limited number of referenda. His/her representation is scaled down by a factor of 1000s or milillions; for example, the largest American state, California, with somewhere around 40 million people, gets all of two Senators.




    If you've ever wondered why the intellectual plane of American political campaigns is now lower than a snake's belly (recall "Blow-Hole" Joe's scintillating displays of cerbral prowess on the 3 or 4 occasions he was dragged out of his basement to publicly campaign as a Presidential candidate in 2020; it was like watching a stunned mullet utter a quick handful of fatuous platitudes, then abruptly disappear back into its swamp - real MENSA stuff ! The reason the standard has fallen so low is because in America every nut-case, every ignorant buffon, every chuckle-headed dolt, every feeble-minded fool, every sub-80 IQ nit-wit gets his or her vote. Moreover these persons apparantly form the majority of the US electorate. The intelligent, informed, thoughtful , common - sensical, prudent voters are a minority.





    "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY" IS RULE BY MONEY"





    The vast size and scale of representation in America ensures that billions of corrupting dollars flow through the system, "tainting" even the most virtuous of law-makers, and guaranteeing a flood of corrupt , corporate media propaganda and "Fake News". "Industrial democracy is ruled by money and the will to spend it. So, who are the main players in America's "Industrial Democracy"? Well, as a matter of fact it's the Jewish Lobby, which contributes at least 50% of Democratic campaign funds and at least 25% of Republican funds (if you don't believe that, check it out for yourself, dude, - you've got a lap-top !).Wealthy American Jews spend literally 100s of millions of dollars on campaigns, ads, donations and various other political activities, all, of course, to influence the outcome in their favoured direction. The Athenian ancients would be appalled to see what their cherished democracy has come to.





    Today America is on the brink of degenerating into tyranny of various forms. Plato would not be surprised in the slightest. America now has tyrannies of the rich, tyrannies of the Judeocracy and tyrannies of "Big Tech", all vying for power, all cooperating as needed to make sure that nothing like accountable and transparent government ever comes to pass. The primary objective of the rich is to stay that way, and to maintain or broaden the wealth gap disparity between themselves and the masses. The larger the wealth differential the more (relative) power they hold.





    A key objective of the rich power elite is to weaken and damage America's national psyche sufficiently, and to radically diversify and deplete the nation genetically, so that they can maintain maximum control without completely destroying the capacity of the national economy to produce wealth. Sadly, America has now been completely enveloped by this insidious and degenerate form of government. The US is currently ruled by the lowest, most depraved and incompetent individuals imaginable. At the same time it is being swamped by the virtual scum of humanity - in June of 2021 alone, over 212,000 arrests ( or as the government's euphemistic propaganda calls them - "encounters") occurred at the Southern Border. Exactly how many more evaded "encounter" and entered the US illegally no one knows. To these numbers we must add the "legal" immigration of non- White, non-NorthWestern European individual who INEVITABLY change the character of the nation (cf: "Mexifornia" a disgusting shit-hole, which was once America's "Golden State"). The combined effect is dramatic. America, according to a recent study, now has an astonishing 44 million people who are foreign - born, of which just 75% are legal and 25% illegal. Nearly half of those millions were born in just 5 countries: Mexico; China; India;the Phillipines and El Salvador. (and surely not more than a percent or two of these 44 million are White Western European).





    The bottom line folks is that the grand edifice that is America is collapsing as we speak !




    So y'all, it's time to accept reality and give up America for lost. Toss out your red MAGA caps, put away your "Stars and Stripes" flags, your Tump pins and all your Red-White and Blue paraphenalia. America will never be great again, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either a fool or a liar. America is rotting from above and below, vermin are calling the shots from on high, and human detritus is pouring over the border.THIS IS PRECISELY HOW ANCIENT ROME FELL




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    DLM....Dachshund Lives Matter !
    Glancing at your post?

    It appears you are saying that too many voters are non-'white', Christian males?

    True?

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    Quote Originally Posted by McRocket View Post
    Glancing at your post?

    It appears you are saying that too many voters are non-'white', Christian males?

    True?
    Its many non-white voters that saved Democracy, and despite un-American repuke gerrymandering and voter suppression as the enemy from within. The U.S. was defended and built by Americans of all races in particular African American, Asian Americans and Latino Americans in particular who served in all wars going back to the Independence War, and who also created inventions of America that served the entire world. Look it up. Also, the only indigenous North Americas are the Native Americans.

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    Default HOW TRUMP AND HIS ENABLERS ARE DESTROYING THE AMERICAN WAY

    I was brought up to believe in “the American Way.”

    My father was a political science professor and a onetime Republican candidate for state office, who was very proud of the way our system worked. As a young man, I learned about such merits of compromise with the “loyal opposition,” and how our “separation of powers” protected us from abuse of power.

    I wonder what he would think of a world in which “compromise” has become a dirty word and the separation of powers is on the verge of total collapse.

    Is “the American Way” a sham? The system seemed to be working, but now it isn’t. An authoritarian president is imposing his will on the country and the other two branches of government. He defies Congress and the Congress. He exploits the court system’s loopholes and deliberate pace to render it all but impotent.

    He’s turned the Fourth Estate, the media, into his own personal lapdog — dependent upon him for ratings and programming content. They may criticize him, but any publicity is good publicity.

    We’ve put so much trust in the system, we’ve forgotten one thing: No human system works if humans stop supporting it.

    One by one, speakers at the Democratic National Convention referred to America’s failures: racism, slavery, sweatshop labor, the scorn and abandonment of those who can’t make ends meet, the theft of land from sovereign tribes and nations.

    When the U.S. violated the treaties it signed with these nations, it illustrated just how dependent human systems are upon human beings. A contract means nothing if no one enforces it.

    Checks and balances mean nothing if they’re not respected.

    http://www.stephenhprovost.com/on-life/american-way


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    Quote Originally Posted by gemini104104 View Post
    Its many non-white voters that saved Democracy, and despite un-American repuke gerrymandering and voter suppression as the enemy from within. The U.S. was defended and built by Americans of all races in particular African American, Asian Americans and Latino Americans in particular who served in all wars going back to the Independence War, and who also created inventions of America that served the entire world. Look it up. Also, the only indigenous North Americas are the Native Americans.
    Ummm...excuse me?

    All I did was ask him to clarify his position.
    I never said for one SECOND that I agree with it (if my assumption is correct).




    And, for the record?
    I do NOT believe in 'races'.
    I believe there is only ONE race of humans...ALL of them.
    There is NO such thing as a 'white' race.
    Or a 'black' race.
    Or any other race.

    To assume that one human is an entirely different race from another human strictly/largely due to the melanin content of his/her skin?
    Is absolutely asinine.

    They sell melanin pills.
    https://beauty.onehowto.com/article/...lls-12228.html
    If I took enough of these pills.
    My skin (I am 'WASP') would eventually look 'black'.
    So...would I then be no longer 'white'?
    Most strangers looking at me would assume I was 'black'.

    You see?
    It's ridiculous.

    And the same goes with ANY OTHER differences.
    They are nothing but a product of ancestral adaptations to their environments.

    We are ALL, one race of humans.

    I realize few agree with me on that.
    Oh darn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by McRocket View Post
    Ummm...excuse me?

    All I did was ask him to clarify his position.
    I never said for one SECOND that I agree with it (if my assumption is correct).




    And, for the record?
    I do NOT believe in 'races'.
    I believe there is only ONE race of humans...ALL of them.
    There is NO such thing as a 'white' race.
    Or a 'black' race.
    Or any other race.

    To assume that one human is an entirely different race from another human strictly/largely due to the melanin content of his/her skin?
    Is absolutely asinine.

    They sell melanin pills.
    https://beauty.onehowto.com/article/...lls-12228.html
    If I took enough of these pills.
    My skin (I am 'WASP') would eventually look 'black'.
    So...would I then be no longer 'white'?
    Most strangers looking at me would assume I was 'black'.

    You see?
    It's ridiculous.

    And the same goes with ANY OTHER differences.
    They are nothing but a product of ancestral adaptations to their environments.

    We are ALL, one race of humans.

    I realize few agree with me on that.
    Oh darn.
    Seriously? Well consider the following facts in particular:

    Black Labor Has Built America Through Centuries

    In the ongoing reckoning over race in America, many of the conversations in this moment are forward-focused. While striving for a more equitable future is imperative, can we really move forward without a comprehensive understanding of the history that got us to this moment? Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson spends the hour looking back at the role of African-Americans in the making of America, specifically through the lens of Black American labor."

    https://wdet.org/posts/2020/12/11/90...ugh-centuries/

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    Quote Originally Posted by gemini104104 View Post
    Seriously? Well consider the following facts in particular:

    Black Labor Has Built America Through Centuries

    In the ongoing reckoning over race in America, many of the conversations in this moment are forward-focused. While striving for a more equitable future is imperative, can we really move forward without a comprehensive understanding of the history that got us to this moment? Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson spends the hour looking back at the role of African-Americans in the making of America, specifically through the lens of Black American labor."

    https://wdet.org/posts/2020/12/11/90...ugh-centuries/
    Ummm....okay.


    I still consider there is NO 'white' race.
    And no 'black' race.
    Or any other sub 'race' of humans (except humans themselves).


    If there is a 'black' guy and a 'white' guy standing on a corner?
    I assume that you see a 'white' guy and a 'black' guy.

    But I see just two, human beings.
    Of the same race...the human race.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McRocket View Post
    Ummm....okay.


    I still consider there is NO 'white' race.
    And no 'black' race.
    Or any other sub 'race' of humans (except humans themselves).


    If there is a 'black' guy and a 'white' guy standing on a corner?
    I assume that you see a 'white' guy and a 'black' guy.

    But I see just two, human beings.
    Of the same race...the human race.
    These regressive fucks will flat out tell you that this makes you a bad person.

    Buckle Up, nightmare crash imminent.
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

    DARK AGES SUCK!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    These regressive fucks will flat out tell you that this makes you a bad person.

    Buckle Up, nightmare crash imminent.
    Thanks for the warning, my friend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McRocket View Post
    Thanks for the warning, my friend.
    You would do it for me right?

    We gotta help each other out.
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

    DARK AGES SUCK!

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