You have it in place for your own representatives for goodness sakes.

Absolutely comparable. One elects a person, the other elects a policy.

One is just more direct in the working of the people on the government than the other.

You're being *very* silly.

Why would it be so silly?

With an election the majority wins.

It can flip flop.

Why not for a referendum?

And again. Both public votes, both for public opinion on how the government is to be run, both majority votes.

It's absolutely comparable by those variables at the least. Quit trying to stonewall and headsand.

No no no silly!

Have a recall vote.

IF there is public petition to do so.

If the policy stands, no harm no foul, if it fails, democracy in action.

If the majority NO LONGER wants the policy to go through, why stop them from voting against it?

That's a violation of democracy,

@Deleted User Of course it's flawed silly. All systems are flawed.

Democracy tends to be the one that garners the most power and strength based on how we stand today.

End of story. Your governmental system got cucked.

Now sit your ass down before democracy calls you a felon and invalidates your vote. <:really:591181753625083905>

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*superior

It is clearly the superior system. The word you are looking for is "better"

It's not an argument, it's a statement of fact.

Democracy is the most powerful governmental system in the word, end of story.

/*better

Not superior

Did I say it did?

Humor me.

I don't dispute it, nor do I endorse it, as that was not my point. @Deleted User

Because irrelevant of which system is "better" at this point democracy is the best option that remains, because it kills all other options.

Including Technocracy.

Unless a real life meme occurs and SIEGE actually happens.

Which I doubt will happen.

If it hasn't existed then it's only better on paper. And paper is worthless.

Just look at communism.

Everyone says it's fucking stellar on paper until you start ethnically cleansing the kulaks.

Get back to me when a country actually installs a technocracy.

@Deleted User Democracy was once on paper, and I would be just as unconfident with it as I would be with technocracy now.

But right now democracy isn’t, and technocracy is.

Technocracy is, at a base level, unproven.

It’s on you and your affiliates to prove it, not me.

And I only didn’t respond because unlike some people *I have a life outside of discord.*

@Deleted User I'm absolutely concerned about what has happened. I.E. kulaks getting slaughtered.

I'm not saying technocracy is *bad*, I'm saying it needs to be proven to work in a real life scenario before it has any weight behind it.

Unless they elected to change the name and join Mexico, yes. That’s how nations work.

Exactly.

A nation is technically just a geographical region with an autonomous government.

Not much more than that if you really push it down to bare bones essentials.

And the definitions of the geographical region by name and custom are defined by the population of that area deemed citizens by pre-existing custom created by previous citizens.

Ergo if a bunch of Mexican suddenly replaced everyone in Israel, given they had Israeli citizenship, they would be Israeli and citizens of Israel. They may then change the name and allegiance of Israel. If they are not citizens and attempt to do so, Israel will remain Israel.

@Deleted User A caveat then, by the standards everyone *actually ends up using* because seeing the US as a state is convenient.

@Deleted User But can they walk away from the hard labor?

Because if not that’s just... like... jail with extra steps.

You misunderstand me. Are they forced to stay there?

@Deleted User So, are you a Nazi?

Because those Nazi memes look like they’re being used in a self-referential way.

Hot Take: WW2 shows that fascists suck not because the rest of the world beat them, but because they are shit at subversive action and non-provocative actions beneficial to themselves. I mean, come on, you managed to go so overboard you got nearly the entire rest of the world working against you for the expressed purpose of kicking your shit in. Functional and more importantly *survivable* ideologies don’t do that shit. They cooperate with others while pushing their agenda under the radar.

Fascism is basically the drag queen of ideologies. It’s so fucking obnoxious to everything but itself that everything else avoids it or attacks it.

And *subtlety* is not in the vocabulary of fascists.

At least the fucking communists were able to cooperate with people they hated for the sake of beating the shit out of people they hated more.

@Deleted User "they hated the fact they declared war"

I would argue violence and war is a fundamental part of the fascist ideology. That being that there must *always* be an enemy.

Or, at the very least 20th century German National Socialism.

@everyone Daily Question 🔖

- Why is the current refugee crisis occurring and how can we solve it, or should we at all?

I'd also like to include the South American one for variety. See if theres a difference between ways to handle it.

I think it would be more efficient to fix the place where they are coming from so that they just stop coming instead of constantly spending money on ejecting them when they will just come back over and over.

Fix the dam instead of putting up sandbags downstream.

@Deleted User Arguably the south *did* run away politically.

@Deleted User Watch the implications mate.

@Deleted User Blacks from south to north.

@Deleted User You know what I mean.

@Deleted User Bullets can cost a lot of diplomatic power and standing. In addition, you'd have to buy a *lot* of bullets, guns, and people to pull the triggers.

Lemme guess, you're more of a scimitar kind of guy? @Deleted User

@Deleted User But your country is an island. Sanctions from other countries could hit you twice as hard given that islands tend not to be super duper resource rich on their own.

Unless it's a fat ass like Australia.

@Wiktor VI Why is the image reversed?

Also what would a gun tattoo personally mean for you?

How’s 150 lbs for an absolute beginner on a deadlift? # of reps to do with it?

@Deleted User I meant the weight, not *my* weight.

@Oboe About 190. Fucked if I can remember my height but I’ll check.

And remember I’m talking multiple reps here. Not a one and done deal.

I think I’m somewhere in the range of 5’7”

21 yo

What I want to know is the number of reps *I should do*

Of course.

I weigh 190. The weight is... about 150 lbs. don’t know how much the bar weighs so it’s a general guess.

That’s as much as I’ve tried so far. I’m assuming that I can lift more but I don’t have enough weights.

I can probably do 15 max. Overweight but not obese. Cardio needs work.

But cardio is another topic entirely.

That said this is after doing 100 reps straight of 65 pounds yesterday and literally starting with that alone, so I’m quite sore.

Well, those were bench presses though.

Bit different than a deadlift. Point is my elbows fucking hurt.

Hahahahaha, see, now that’s assuming I thought ahead. Which I did not.

IOL, no, forgot stretching was important to not suffer the next day.

To be fair, I haven’t lifted in nearly three years, so I’ve got some memories to refresh.

Yeah. Won’t be forgetting that any time soon after waking up with my arms in practical rigor mortis.

Also been doing a 20 rep 3 set of curls, what I can describe as T-poses, and what I can describe as starting the lawn mower.

Forgot the formal names.

With 15 lb dumbbells

Probably.