And a girl in a Chell costume. I think the person in the vac cube is supposed to be the companion cube?

Do you want warlords? That’s how you get warlords.

Besides, most cats are jerks. We love them because they are tiny furry jerks.

I admit, for a moment this lad from a small provincial Tuscan town dreamed big!

It’s still representative so retains many of the same weaknesses.

Yes and no. Proportional representation is inherently non-personal, which means that …

Plus IMO LLMs talking to constituents online coukd do a mich better job of representing them than MPs talking to them over mail.

Yeah, on second thought, never mind.

Somewhere in the middle is proportional representation.

I agree with the sentiment, but you left out a few crucial words.

the people of Rotterdam looking at the nazis marching on the rubble of what was left of their city were not responsible for the feelings of the innocent Germans who didn’t support hitlers rise to power.

That’s ok. Neither does op.

I’m on the Darcy wagon - hard.

Oh no! I’m devastated!

I’m not the one arguing with you. I’m the one observing you have the rhetorical skills and emotional maturity of a child.

This whole comment just drips insecurity. You should get that looked at.

In functioning societies, you could even afford to have it looked at.

This, but unironically.

I’m starting to fear what happens if he doesn’t.

I have been notified that I misplaced the hyphen. The proper spelling is left socialist-revolutionaries.

I know what free market people call “voluntary transactions”. Fuck that.

They went after the left-socialist revolutionaries. It’s about political expediency, not ideology.

Whenever I study revolutions, I try and find the exact moment I would have been put to death. I’d never make it to the end in most of them.

If only there was a word for making sure the economy serves society instead of the other way around. We could call it societyism? Socioconomism? Let’s workshop that a bit.

Regicide is at the order of the day.

Dude, it’s about regulatory capture.

Your problem isn’t that your state is “too big”, it’s that it’s not able to resist pressure from moneyed interests.