Hexphoenix [any]

tell the mystery force responsible for the mystery thing good job

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A benevolent dictatorship is obviously the most effective form of government, the problem is that any dictatorship can be used for good or evil and no matter how benevolent your queen or dictator or whatever you call her is, she’s gonna die eventually and now you’re rolling the dice. If you get someone less benevolent, system’s a failure. If you get someone just as benevolent but less competent and they get deposed, system’s a failure. And that’s assuming that the system even survives succession rather than devolving into old-school feudalism or capitalist ‘democracy’ or ancap utopia or whatever in a power vacuum.

The only way to ensure a benevolent government remains long-term is by spreading the power out enough that the system can shrug off the deaths and retirement of individuals and keep going along some plan that exists beyond any one person

Okay, you say, so don’t have a dictatorship of one benevolent queen but rather of a benevolent group acting in the best interests of the people. And this has the same pros and cons, but both blunted. It’s good at what it does as long as the group remains truly benevolent, but any organization can decay and become corrupt and, in a sense, die just like our hypothetical good queen.

So if we just keep following the logic down, we end up at the idea that the group responsible for the wide-ranging decisions affecting everyone’s lives should ideally be accountable to, more or less, everyone. If the ultimate goal is for the government to act in the best interests of the people, it follows that it is the people who should be the best judge of how well the government is working. If it stops doing its job properly, it is the people who notice. So it should be in the hands of the people to correct it.

Huh, then yeah I guess that’s possible in theory

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Ok listen this one can’t be true, like if he said that then he made it up. Because you literally can’t fuck a chicken, that kills them very quickly. People have tried, and they don’t try twice lol

Exactly. I’m getting a bit old to even tolerate hanging out with high schoolers but it’s inevitable every now and again, and I assure you that at no point have I accidentally discussed anything sexual with them. It’s so easy. For the most part they don’t want to talk about that shit with your crusty old ass anyway, and the few who do just need a firm “no, that’s entirely inappropriate”

It’s so easy dude lmao

Just plop Israel right on top of Berlin. Give em the entire city, any suburbs, whatever. People are there already? Guess it’s time for them to move. Wouldn’t want to be antisemitic

Well the second question is probably just availability. There are dogs everywhere and a lot of people straight up harass you if you don’t have or like dogs.

And meanwhile I’m sitting at work in the evil empire

I really think it’s mostly organic. I don’t think they tell you to be corrupt, they just tell you to “be smart” and “pay attention to how we do it” and then they either fall in line with all their corrupt piggy buddies or get fired

Yesss dude, fuck yeah, send in some Americans to the meat grinder!

Smh you powergamers ruin all the fun, I’m just over here going all in on class and I gotta be compared to mfers like you

If you’ve ever played D&D you know that being unable to separate the actions of a character from the person portraying that character is a disease afflicting the brains of, like, most Americans at least

Subscribe to my lighthouse or I’ll track your route and turn off the light whenever you’re nearby

Being a lighthouse keeper definitely has a certain appeal, but yeah I definitely wouldn’t want it to be my lighthouse that I’m expected to pay to have maintained lol

It’s pretty much the worst kind of house to have, enjoyable only by the ultra wealthy who visit every once in a while and leave it otherwise uninhabited. Having to take a fucking boat to get groceries or do anything sucks ass, saltwater-air is bad for basically everything humans make, etc etc.

Every time I see an Alex, Sam, Jaime, or other ungendered name

Cocaine + the gym, incidentally, sounds like it probably would work pretty well. And also possibly kill you.

We really don’t need to worry about “coming off like a trump supporter” because anyone here who thinks for half a second can tell there are no trump supporters here