Martin Hash wrote:Dude, do you even have anything to lose? Maybe you should pay a little attention to #1?Speaker to Animals wrote:Martin Hash wrote:I think only people with doctorates should vote, once for each doctorate; and millionaires should get 1 vote for each million; and business owners; and rocket scientists; let me see, who shouldn't vote? People who disagree with me.
Oh, are the people with the doctorates the ones who have to pay for everybody else's decisions? LOL.
When your crackpot system results in invasion or military coup, be sure to tell the soldiers you have a doctorate when they come to arrest you.
It's HILARIOUS that you are the one who always says liberty comes at the point of a gun, and yet you demand somebody else use that gun for your benefit so that you don't have to risk anything. HILARIOUS!
p.s. Invasion? Military coup? Democracy will be what defeats liberty.
Look, man. It's not about self-interest as you imply.
I don't technically own property and yet I fully support only enfranchising people at the state and local level based on property ownership.
The electorate should have skin in the game. They should have to pay for the shit they vote for. If you want to increase pay for teachers and government workers, then you should have to pay for that. The same applies to foreign policy, though, and in that context, the payment comes in service.
Nobody in the warrior caste likes weasels, by the way. Saying "it's just a job" and "go fight and die for me because I am rich!" only earns you scorn. That's cowardice. The old aristocracy had the balls to fight on the battlefield in their own wars. Even the current English monarchy fights. They are lightyears ahead of you in honor. I'd rather go back to that than send my kids off to fight for people like you and your whims.
