CS 313 - Get me a glass of Water

[katarn]

We don't have an uber powerful executive -- exec is uber powerful is certain realms, but the exec is highly limited in other areas.

Original Q:

You know my general politics, so this is a Q is uncomfortable to me but is making reevaluate (as I always am):

What if our 3-branch, diluted power, special-interest fueled system CANNOT SOLVE ANY REAL PROBLEM WE FACE?

What if your current system's ceiling is maintaining this slow decline, kicking the can down the road on every issue, until one day we can't?

The solution to the concern -- 3-branch, diluted power, special-interest fueled system -- is not alleviated by "a more advanced coalition government system" unless you believe in unicorns.

Ok, if you're a special interest - Apeman Inc. - do you think you'll find it easier to influence a single corrupt official, or 10?

Easier to influence 1, but when the 1 has the power of 10 he should be harder to corrupt, already having power.

[TheReal_ND]

Government is not the solution to any "real problem we face."

Government is the cause of the real problems we face.

[DrYouth]

Good episode...

Looks like Dan is down about the authoritarianism.

He pretty much stopped there.

Didn't really call out the hysterical section of the anti-Trump reaction...

He also doesn't seem to like the Breitbart and Infowars crowd much...

I sense some whitey insecurity on the boards today.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Ok, if you're a special interest - Apeman Inc. - do you think you'll find it easier to influence a single corrupt official, or 10?

there can be NO credible doubt that someone free from needing to get elected every few years is far more inoculated from special interests.

Did Louis the Sun King need special interests as much as today's candidates? No, he WAS the special interest everyone else needed.

I suspect you think for approximately 1 second before each post.

Bad form, old bean. You're better than this.

Louis the Sun King, along with his grandson, whom made his ascent in the arms of Madame La'Guillotine, was completely insulated from everyday life in the land. Do you think he ran his nation based on information from the populace, or based on the opinion of the worthy few who graced his ear? The very definition of government via Special Interest.

Also, for every Sun King, you'll get a Kaiser Wilhelm, or Henry VIII. I shouldn't even have to tell you this, and you know it.

[Speaker to Animals]

Kaiser Wilhelm did nothing wrong.

[C-Mag]

I sense some whitey insecurity on the boards today.

Do tell me more sir.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

I suspect you think for approximately 1 second before each post.

Ain't apeman sexy when he rears up on his hind legs like that?
:snicker:

[Fife]

I just listened to CS313 on the scenic route from the office to the Casa de Fife (the route that takes you by the really cheap liquor store).

FLYING MONKEYS

CYBER BROWNSHIRTS

For fucks sake.

[katarn]

Ok, if you're a special interest - Apeman Inc. - do you think you'll find it easier to influence a single corrupt official, or 10?

there can be NO credible doubt that someone free from needing to get elected every few years is far more inoculated from special interests.

Did Louis the Sun King need special interests as much as today's candidates? No, he WAS the special interest everyone else needed.

I suspect you think for approximately 1 second before each post.

Bad form, old bean. You're better than this.

Louis the Sun King, along with his grandson, whom made his ascent in the arms of Madame La'Guillotine, was completely insulated from everyday life in the land. Do you think he ran his nation based on information from the populace, or based on the opinion of the worthy few who graced his ear? The very definition of government via Special Interest.

Also, for every Sun King, you'll get a Kaiser Wilhelm, or Henry VIII. I shouldn't even have to tell you this, and you know it.

What was wrong with Henry VIII?

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

I just listened to CS313 on the scenic route from the office to the Casa de Fife (the route that takes you by the really cheap liquor store).

FLYING MONKEYS

CYBER BROWNSHIRTS

For fucks sake.

The seething, the seething, the seething!
Poor Dan doesn't know a troll from a felonious assault captured on cellphone.