Message from @Goodwood of Dank™

Discord ID: 614658455508221962


2019-08-24 03:08:41 UTC  

system11, you should read my second novel...

2019-08-24 03:08:54 UTC  

...he's a fairly major minor character.

2019-08-24 03:08:54 UTC  

But then, that's basically a system with some elements of democracy, providing voting as a privilege to be earned through meritorious behavior, rather than a default right.

2019-08-24 03:09:19 UTC  

Which *is* better than universal suffrage, I strongly suspect.

2019-08-24 03:09:37 UTC  

Because it attaches that representation more strongly to a personal investment, and personal risk.

2019-08-24 03:09:49 UTC  

Service Guarantees Citizenship!

2019-08-24 03:09:56 UTC  

its hrd to measure meritous behaviour

2019-08-24 03:10:47 UTC  

Voting isn't a right. The ability to earn the vote is.

2019-08-24 03:10:51 UTC  

Hard, yes, many standards can be better than virtually none at all. Or "oh, you were born here, that means you understand how things should be run!"

2019-08-24 03:10:53 UTC  

In Starship Troopers.

2019-08-24 03:11:30 UTC  

socioeconomic mobility is far more important a factor in functional civilization than socioeconomic *equality*

2019-08-24 03:11:33 UTC  

fite me

2019-08-24 03:11:52 UTC  

Oh no, I agree.

2019-08-24 03:12:06 UTC  

I'd rather fite you over your use of woo.

2019-08-24 03:12:11 UTC  

woo

2019-08-24 03:12:18 UTC  

uwu

2019-08-24 03:12:43 UTC  

awoo

2019-08-24 03:12:52 UTC  

0w0

2019-08-24 03:12:54 UTC  

i think i have a way to cause the guardian to have an apoplectic fit. all we need to do is get boris to suggest that voting rights should be suspended while someone is not contributing taxes

2019-08-24 03:13:15 UTC  

Kek.

2019-08-24 03:13:24 UTC  

The absolute madlad. He might actually go for it.

2019-08-24 03:13:36 UTC  

But the basic point I'm making, is that, comparing systems, even while Starship Troopers can be argued superior to the system we have now, it's success is still chiefly subject to the kind of people who operate within it. For instance, it's still possible to gain the system to stack votes, by bloating public service sectors in order to justify an expanding demos, and leveraging the loyalty of those new employees to the official who created their jobs.

2019-08-24 03:14:35 UTC  

We can see examples of this in the US currently, as certain public sector employees represent a considerable lobby, obstructing efficiency and cost reform.

2019-08-24 03:27:37 UTC  

Also, I would argue a nation of laws and not men is impossible. Laws require men. Unless you're arguing for everything to be run by some autonomous self-creating AI. While some men are more, or less, interested in enforcing objective, impartial laws, the results are nevertheless a consequence of those men.

2019-08-24 03:29:12 UTC  

No more "OwO"ing it's disgusting, and you are a pervert.

2019-08-24 04:44:44 UTC  

>posting memes in the political discussion chat

2019-08-24 04:44:54 UTC  

"We don't like your kind here, feller"

2019-08-24 04:50:57 UTC  

the memes must flow

2019-08-24 06:09:07 UTC  

Shapiro makes me love the left by praising, I mean fellating dead Koch brother's corpse on air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQvX1CrNKOo

2019-08-24 06:09:25 UTC  

With friends like this, who needs enemies? (Fucking kike.)

2019-08-24 06:09:32 UTC  
2019-08-24 08:47:39 UTC  

The future is racial

2019-08-24 09:10:08 UTC  

too high of socioeconomic mobility is a bad thing

2019-08-24 09:10:30 UTC  

it disrupts the formation of families

2019-08-24 10:34:26 UTC  

What does that mean, "too high" socio-economic mobility? What's "too high"? And why does it disrupt families?