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Starmieketone 03/20/20 11:43:23 AM #1: |
Personally, the COVID-19 crisis has converted me from being a staunch democratic libertarian to perceiving that the only logical way forward for humanity or, truth be told, for any individual nation is for a totalitarian, *moderate* government.
Please note, ANTIFA and far right detractors, I have stipulated that there should be a moderate totalitarian government. None of your Communist or Fascist trappings here, please, we aren't interested. This will be a moderate world for moderate people. --- Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Questionmarktarius 03/20/20 11:45:33 AM #3: |
Starmieketone posted...
moderate totalitarian governmentwhut ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SauI_Goodman 03/20/20 11:46:47 AM #4: |
we've already known that for decades
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 11:47:34 AM #5: |
Hairistotle posted...
User Info: StarmieketoneI forget about GameFAQs for large stretches of time since I have something approaching a normal life, so sue me. When I remember, I grace you all with my presence and you are all enriched by the experience. --- Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tenlaar 03/20/20 11:48:15 AM #7: |
Because, as we all know, one of the things that totalitarian governments tend to do best is moderate themselves.
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Bloodporne 03/20/20 11:48:31 AM #8: |
So basically we need to elect Light Yagami
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De Evolution 03/20/20 11:48:56 AM #9: |
Tenlaar posted...
Because, as we all know, one of the things that totalitarian governments tend to do best is moderate themselves. /EndTopic --- Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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E32005 03/20/20 11:49:14 AM #10: |
Starmieketone posted...
trying too hard. this is pathetic --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Doom_Art 03/20/20 11:50:22 AM #11: |
i always get a kick out of people who get overly defensive when you point that out about their account lol
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Solid Snake07 03/20/20 11:50:59 AM #12: |
I went to walmart tuesday. Some of the shelves were sparse but definitly not picked clean, and they had a ton people restocking them at around noon, which is unusual during normal circumstances.
Our food supply chain is pretty damn strong in this country. The idea that we're gonna "run out of food" is quite frankly silly. You have any idea how much food this country wastes every year? We're good. --- "People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time" -Detective Rust Cohle ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 11:52:29 AM #13: |
Crono99 posted...
A totalitarian government only means that one person is able to run the country in his own personal interest. It doesn't really matter at that point whether they call themselves fascists or communists or moderates.If I were being flippant, I would ask you about the word in parentheses following your username. If I were not being flippant, I would wonder what the difference was in the current system - what is to stop current national leaders from running a country in their own personal interest? Do you really think that if Donald Trump or Boris Johnson were (Heaven forefend) to try to tilt the scales in their own favour, they would not be able to do so? --- Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Squall28 03/20/20 11:52:35 AM #14: |
I'd rather be out of toilet paper than live under a totalitarian government.
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 11:53:48 AM #15: |
Doom_Art posted...
i always get a kick out of people who get overly defensive when you point that out about their account lolOverly defensive? My dear boy, you obviously have no idea what overly defensive looks like. I am mildly amused at most. --- Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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kingdrake2 03/20/20 11:54:42 AM #16: |
Squall28 posted...
I'd rather be out of toilet paper i was at the super market. ton of paper towels but no TP :(. --- Explorers In The Further Regions Of Experience, demons to some, Angels To Others: Pinhead ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 11:54:51 AM #17: |
Under the moderate totalitarian government I am devising, you would have all the toilet paper you could ever hoard.
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Tenlaar 03/20/20 11:58:57 AM #18: |
Starmieketone posted...
Under the moderate totalitarian government I am devising, you would have all the toilet paper you could ever hoard.What mechanisms do you put in place to ensure that a totalitarian government stays moderate? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 12:09:41 PM #19: |
First of all, I propose the establishment of a worldwide, multinational organisation of impeccable morals. Let us call them WMOIM
This, of course, will be enforced internally by the codification of laws concerning the following:
* including but not limited to: toilet paper, paper towel, dry pasta, frozen pasta meals, pasta sauce, Parmesan cheese, biscuits, muesli bars, paper towel, pasta sauce, toilet paper, frozen deserts, toilet paper and dried pasta --- Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Questionmarktarius 03/20/20 12:11:42 PM #20: |
Tenlaar posted...
What mechanisms do you put in place to ensure that a totalitarian government stays moderate?Is it guillotines? Because it usually ends up being guillotines. ...and then the new guys end up in the guillotines a few years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tenlaar 03/20/20 12:12:14 PM #21: |
Whole lot of executions with no trials going on in your "moderate" government, there.
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 12:12:58 PM #22: |
la lanterne! Wait a second, I smell Marat. Who are you?
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The Trent 03/20/20 12:14:56 PM #23: |
if quarantine means i have to read shit like this, quarantine was a mistake
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 12:17:13 PM #24: |
Tenlaar posted...
Whole lot of executions with no trials going on in your "moderate" government, there. How many people die each day due to Coronavirus, my dear boy? These "executions" would pale in number to the masses reaped by the dual scythes of sickness and poverty. One of the aphorisms Socrates himself lauded was "nothing too much". Pity, for I believed this was inscribed upon the lintel of the temple at Delphi, but them's the breaks, I suppose. My point being, everything is good in moderation, even capital punishment and especially mercy. --- Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paragon21XX 03/20/20 12:20:57 PM #25: |
Totalitarian governments are evil incarnate as proven by every totalitarian government throughout human history, and not even one of them were ever the "necessary evil" kind either.
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 12:25:25 PM #26: |
Paragon21XX posted...
Totalitarian governments are evil incarnate as proven by every totalitarian government throughout human history, and not even one of them were ever the "necessary evil" kind either.Electric cars were "proven" to be impractical and commercial suicide to invest in until the development of the Tesla. Prior to the space race, people were still arguing that it was "proven" that rockets could not leave the atmosphere, since there was nothing to push against". To extend a metaphor, in this case, there will be everything to push against. --- Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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lightwarrior78 03/20/20 12:28:56 PM #27: |
The problem is theories are based on people practicing rational self interest, yet we don't seem to teach it. This is honestly a good example. People should have some emergency food on hand for any number of reasons beyond COVID, as well as some savings for tough times. Instead we've got people that thought things will always be fine, always keep running, and the first sign something might break in the system caused people to stockpile in panic instead of saying "well, I have the box of rice in the cupboard for a reason." And before anyone butts in about "not everyone can" the belief we don't have to prepare for a rainy day is often why some people have ended up in that situation.
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 12:31:16 PM #28: |
lightwarrior78 posted...
The problem is theories are based on people practicing rational self interest, yet we don't seem to teach it. This is honestly a good example. People should have some emergency food on hand for any number of reasons beyond COVID, as well as some savings for tough times. Instead we've got people that thought things will always be fine, always keep running, and the first sign something might break in the system caused people to stockpile in panic instead of saying "well, I have the box of rice in the cupboard for a reason." And before anyone butts in about "not everyone can" the belief we don't have to prepare for a rainy day is often why some people have ended up in that situation.In other words, my dear boy, it's theoria vs. praxis. In this case, my praxis is so radical it's tubular. --- Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Starmieketone 03/20/20 12:46:39 PM #30: |
Do you really think that people would worry about that, as long as they have all the toilet paper, dried pasta and paper towel they could ever want?
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