Democracy is Slavery

[Neo Art]

Alright guys, new challenge: name everything that is the same as slavery.

I'll start: my love for ice-cream is slavery.

fundamental particles are slavery.

CHECK MATE LIBERALS

[Matta]

Mcdonalds is Slavery

[Frisivisia]

Alright guys, new challenge: name everything that is the same as slavery.

I'll start: Ice-cream is slavery.

Ahem;

Literally everything and everyone is slavery.

Nothing and no one and everyone and everything and some things and some people are slavery.

[Napkiraly]

Don't give him/her ideas.

Hey if they make up their own language and speak it, it's easier to tune out.

I think you may be one to something.

To the sanity cave!

NSG is slavery.

This one's true, though.

Once you enter NSG, your soul is forfeit. *nod*

NSG is slavery.

Max Barry is slavery.

Fun is slavery.

[New Chalcedon]

You know what the two top topics I found on NSG were when I took a quick squiz at it?

"Taxation is slavery"; and
"Democracy is slavery", both based on that utter lightweight Nozick's "work" (if I may abuse the term by applying it to Nozick's drivel).

Well, it's a wonderful thing that we have such astute, wise and insightful philosophers as Robert Nozick - the man who hated government but took government funding to both undertake his studies and to further his academic career - to tell us how to look out for our liberties, else we would inevitably be snatched by the government chain-gangs waiting behind every wall and tree, every door and window, for our unsuspecting selves to wander past innocently. Surely, all of humanity would be groaning in chains, held down and forced to labour for the benefits of the battening masses of leeches, were it not for the wisdom of this latter-day Aristotle!

Really, I just wish that libertarianism's adherents would grow up and realise that the Utopia of the rugged, individualistic explorer/settler who can do as (s)he pleases ad bear the consequences themselves (aka the Wild West) (a) is long-gone, and (b) wasn't exactly what any sane person would call "Utopia" in the first place.

Would libertarianism work for a frontier society, or a post-apocalyptic nation struggling for survival? Perhaps (although I doubt it) - but it doesn't work for 21st-century economies, which are based on the extraction, transportation, transformation, re-transportation and consumption of resources.

[Czechanada]

Just fire a nuke at faster than light speed at the Earth to eliminate the individuals who invented democracy all those years ago.

[The Rich Port]

Intellectual masturbation. Worse, intellectual hipsterist masturbation. You're simultaneously ragging on a system for taking into account the will of 'the people', but at the same time criticizing it for not taking into account the will of 'the people'.

Is there any need to be rude? The will of the majority is not equal to the will of the people because those who aren't in the majority are also the people. The system as it is doesn't and can't take them into account. True democracy is the rule of the people, not the rule of some people.

Cool.

America has never been a true democracy.

America is a constitutional republic.

[Sondstead]

Nothing and no one and everyone and everything and some things and some people are slavery.

No liburul can convince me that the word "slavery" is not a tool used by our communistic oppressors to enslave us. Thanks, Obama.

[Regnum Dominae]

Hey if they make up their own language and speak it, it's easier to tune out.

I think you may be one to something.

To the sanity cave!

This one's true, though.

Once you enter NSG, your soul is forfeit. *nod*

Max Barry is slavery.

People is slavery.

Taxation is teapot.

CHECKMATE SHEEPLE

[United Dependencies]

Ahem;

Eh, that just takes all the fun out of it.

[Frisivisia]

I think you may be one to something.

To the sanity cave!

Once you enter NSG, your soul is forfeit. *nod*


People is slavery.

Taxation is teapot.

CHECKMATE SHEEPLE

SHEEPLE IS SLAVERY CHECKMATE LIBERALS

[Albul]

Verbs = Slavery

[Kromar]

I'm Slavery.

I'm Spartacus!

But no, seriously, I think someone pretty much answered the question. It stopped being slavery the minute the relationship between "master" and "slave" in no way resembled slavery.

I mean, I know it's a tautology and "it's not slavery because it doesn't actually resemble slavery in any sense" is somewhat an unsatisfying intellectual answer, but sometimes it works. If I hold up an apple and ask "why isn't this a pear?" then "because it's a fucking apple", while not having a certain joie de vivre of intellectually stimulating discourse, is about as good a response as one could reasonably offer.

I would completely understand the arguement that, while it is technically slavery, you don't care because it isn't "bad slavery." You might even believe that democracy is the best posited form of governance, but that doesn't make it not slavery, that just makes you a slaver apologist.

[Frisivisia]

Verbs Slavery

Nouning are Slavish

[Avenio]

Is there any need to be rude? The will of the majority is not equal to the will of the people because those who aren't in the majority are also the people.

It is, however, as close an approximation as we possibly can get. Much more so than rule of the minority of people who disagree with the majority, anyway.

The system as it is doesn't and can't take them into account. True democracy is the rule of the people, not the rule of some people.

Again with that 'rule of the people' nonsense. Until you can define exactly what it means, 'rule of the people' is just so much noise.

[Napkiraly]

You know what the two top topics I found on NSG were when I took a quick squiz at it?

"Taxation is slavery"; and
"Democracy is slavery", both based on that utter lightweight Nozick's "work" (if I may abuse the term by applying it to Nozick's drivel).

Well, it's a wonderful thing that we have such astute, wise and insightful philosophers as Robert Nozick - the man who hated government but took government funding to both undertake his studies and to further his academic career - to tell us how to look out for our liberties, else we would inevitably be snatched by the government chain-gangs waiting behind every wall and tree, every door and window, for our unsuspecting selves to wander past innocently. Surely, all of humanity would be groaning in chains, held down and forced to labour for the benefits of the battening masses of leeches, were it not for the wisdom of this latter-day Aristotle!

Really, I just wish that libertarianism's adherents would grow up and realise that the Utopia of the rugged, individualistic explorer/settler who can do as (s)he pleases ad bear the consequences themselves (aka the Wild West) (a) is long-gone, and (b) wasn't exactly what any sane person would call "Utopia" in the first place.

Would libertarianism work for a frontier society, or a post-apocalyptic nation struggling for survival? Perhaps (although I doubt it) - but it doesn't work for 21st-century economies, which are based on the extraction, transportation, transformation, re-transportation and consumption of resources.

Even in the wild west people still had to work together in a lot of cases and in a post apocalyptic world, in order to start restoring society well...you guess it, back to cooperation and some form of governance.

[Sondstead]

Verbs Slavery

(Noun) is Russian-style Serfdom!

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

Earth is slavery.

[Matta]

Gravity is slavery.

[Ceolciarog]

NSG is slavery.

Now that one is true.

[Napkiraly]

I think you may be one to something.

To the sanity cave!

Once you enter NSG, your soul is forfeit. *nod*


People is slavery.

Taxation is teapot.

CHECKMATE SHEEPLE

I've been illuminated!

[Sondstead]

Earth is slavery.

Slavery is Earthlings.

[Czechanada]

Earth is slavery.

Eject all people into space and embrace true freedom.

[New Chalcedon]

You know what the two top topics I found on NSG were when I took a quick squiz at it?

"Taxation is slavery"; and
"Democracy is slavery", both based on that utter lightweight Nozick's "work" (if I may abuse the term by applying it to Nozick's drivel).

Well, it's a wonderful thing that we have such astute, wise and insightful philosophers as Robert Nozick - the man who hated government but took government funding to both undertake his studies and to further his academic career - to tell us how to look out for our liberties, else we would inevitably be snatched by the government chain-gangs waiting behind every wall and tree, every door and window, for our unsuspecting selves to wander past innocently. Surely, all of humanity would be groaning in chains, held down and forced to labour for the benefits of the battening masses of leeches, were it not for the wisdom of this latter-day Aristotle!

Really, I just wish that libertarianism's adherents would grow up and realise that the Utopia of the rugged, individualistic explorer/settler who can do as (s)he pleases ad bear the consequences themselves (aka the Wild West) (a) is long-gone, and (b) wasn't exactly what any sane person would call "Utopia" in the first place.

Would libertarianism work for a frontier society, or a post-apocalyptic nation struggling for survival? Perhaps (although I doubt it) - but it doesn't work for 21st-century economies, which are based on the extraction, transportation, transformation, re-transportation and consumption of resources.

Even in the wild west people still had to work together in a lot of cases and in a post apocalyptic world, in order to start restoring society well...you guess it, back to cooperation and some form of governance.

But that's slavery. Government is bad, this I know, because Ayn Rand told me so.

[Frisivisia]

Gravity is slavery.

I don't think you understand the slavery of the situation.