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Lackadaisical2
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:05 am

Grainne Ni Malley wrote:No, we're all idiots and should be drowned at birth. Let the dogs take over.

*votes Grainne for overlord*
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Postby Grainne Ni Malley » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:09 am

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Grainne Ni Malley wrote:No, we're all idiots and should be drowned at birth. Let the dogs take over.

*votes Grainne for overlord*


What would be the point? There would be no one left for me to be overlord of if I had my way. If I had any gumption, I would just create a lemming virus and call it quits.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:12 am

Grainne Ni Malley wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Grainne Ni Malley wrote:No, we're all idiots and should be drowned at birth. Let the dogs take over.

*votes Grainne for overlord*

What would be the point? There would be no one left for me to be overlord of if I had my way. If I had any gumption, I would just create a lemming virus and call it quits.

Isn't that the point? We need to enable you to do this.
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Postby Grainne Ni Malley » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:16 am

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Grainne Ni Malley wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Grainne Ni Malley wrote:No, we're all idiots and should be drowned at birth. Let the dogs take over.

*votes Grainne for overlord*

What would be the point? There would be no one left for me to be overlord of if I had my way. If I had any gumption, I would just create a lemming virus and call it quits.

Isn't that the point? We need to enable you to do this.

Yeah, but I'm a woman and prone to changing my mind every 15 seconds. Currently I am in the severely intoxicated loathing-people mode. Given some actual power and a change of day, I might just decide to make everyone my personal foot and buttocks masseuses. Bad idea to put me in control, but thanks for the thought.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:18 am

Grainne Ni Malley wrote:Currently I am in the severely intoxicated

Its actions like that which inspire the populous to elect you supreme ruler.
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Postby Femifascism » Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:18 am

A rhetorical question. There are many morons that drink nine Coca Cola bottles a day and end up in the hospital.

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Postby Rambhutan » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:00 am

Femifascism wrote:A rhetorical question. There are many morons that drink nine Coca Cola bottles a day and end up in the hospital.


People drive cars when the odds over a life time of dying in a car crash are about 1 in 83 according to the US national safety council. People make that choice. We are pretty much programmed to seek out sweet things as a source of energy because it was always a smart thing to do - now we have access to enough sugar to kill us it is not easy to overcome our nature and resist it, and I am not sure intelligence has anything to do with it.
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Postby Femifascism » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:10 am

Rambhutan wrote:
Femifascism wrote:A rhetorical question. There are many morons that drink nine Coca Cola bottles a day and end up in the hospital.


People drive cars when the odds over a life time of dying in a car crash are about 1 in 83 according to the US national safety council. People make that choice. We are pretty much programmed to seek out sweet things as a source of energy because it was always a smart thing to do - now we have access to enough sugar to kill us it is not easy to overcome our nature and resist it, and I am not sure intelligence has anything to do with it.


The obvious and lasting consequences of such stupid consumption are strangely unable to deter these morons and make them change their ways. You can regard that as a challenge to natural selection.

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Postby Tungookska » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:16 am

are people really smart enough to care for themselves?

no

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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:18 am

Tungookska wrote:
are people really smart enough to care for themselves?

no

Yes. I even used punctuation and capitalization, so I win, right?
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Postby Tungookska » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:19 am

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Tungookska wrote:
are people really smart enough to care for themselves?

no

Yes. I even used punctuation and capitalization, so I win, right?

no

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Postby Rambhutan » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:22 am

Femifascism wrote:The obvious and lasting consequences of such stupid consumption are strangely unable to deter these morons and make them change their ways. You can regard that as a challenge to natural selection.


I don't get how you see it as a challenge to natural selection, it is natural selection at work.
Are we there yet?

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Postby The Adrian Empire » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:27 am

Tungookska wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Tungookska wrote:
are people really smart enough to care for themselves?

no

Yes. I even used punctuation and capitalization, so I win, right?

no

Brilliant debating skills. Care to have some evidence?
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Postby Tungookska » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:28 am

The Adrian Empire wrote:
Tungookska wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Tungookska wrote:
are people really smart enough to care for themselves?

no

Yes. I even used punctuation and capitalization, so I win, right?

no

Brilliant debating skills. Care to have some evidence?

no

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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:29 am

Rambhutan wrote:
Femifascism wrote:The obvious and lasting consequences of such stupid consumption are strangely unable to deter these morons and make them change their ways. You can regard that as a challenge to natural selection.


I don't get how you see it as a challenge to natural selection, it is natural selection at work.

I can only imagine he meant a "challenge from" instead of 'to'. But we can let that slip for our annual review of his right to live.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:29 am

Tungookska wrote:
The Adrian Empire wrote:
Tungookska wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Tungookska wrote:
are people really smart enough to care for themselves?

no

Yes. I even used punctuation and capitalization, so I win, right?

no

Brilliant debating skills. Care to have some evidence?

no

If you're just going to spam thats pretty fucking pathetic.
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Postby Volnotov » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:36 am

Just abolish the nanny states and let social darwinism take care of the rest.
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Postby Tungookska » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:38 am

Volnotov wrote:Just abolish the nanny states and let social darwinism take care of the rest.

turn into anarchy and whoever has the most guns wins?

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Postby Volnotov » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:48 am

Tungookska wrote:
Volnotov wrote:Just abolish the nanny states and let social darwinism take care of the rest.

turn into anarchy and whoever has the most guns wins?


I was more thinking of a coup d'état by a group of massive corporations, succesfuly overthrowing the goverment.

Also, I have always said - if you do want a goverment, atleast make sure it is run like a business.
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Postby Rumbria » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:04 am

Volnotov wrote:
Tungookska wrote:
Volnotov wrote:Just abolish the nanny states and let social darwinism take care of the rest.

turn into anarchy and whoever has the most guns wins?


I was more thinking of a coup d'état by a group of massive corporations, succesfuly overthrowing the goverment.

Also, I have always said - if you do want a goverment, atleast make sure it is run like a business.


Look out only for the leaders and cut anyone else off if they lose any money?
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Postby United and Free » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:08 am

Oh boy another elitist liberal telling us what is good for us.

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Postby Nort Eurasia » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:11 am

United and Free wrote:Oh boy another elitist liberal telling us what is good for us.


Please, refrain for saying things like that. This is a good thread and I don't want to see it getting locked for an argument that could be started by saying things like that.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:12 am

United and Free wrote:Oh boy another elitist liberal telling us what is good for us.

If you knew what was good for you, you wouldn't be typing that.
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Postby Tungookska » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:15 am

Nort Eurasia wrote:
Please, refrain for saying things like that. This is a good thread and I don't want to see it getting locked for an argument that could be started by saying things like that.

you dont want his opinion in this thread?

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Postby The Adrian Empire » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:16 am

Rumbria wrote:
Volnotov wrote:
Tungookska wrote:
Volnotov wrote:Just abolish the nanny states and let social darwinism take care of the rest.

turn into anarchy and whoever has the most guns wins?


I was more thinking of a coup d'état by a group of massive corporations, succesfuly overthrowing the goverment.

Also, I have always said - if you do want a goverment, atleast make sure it is run like a business.


Look out only for the leaders and cut anyone else off if they lose any money?

I don't think you read the description which is actually quite neat, we aren't talking one massive corporation but rather a coalition of them running things on a council basis, with a board of directors elected by shareholders.

No coercive monopolies, like those created by the state.

I don't quite understand the criticism you made anyways, look out only for the leader? You can't do that, not easily, if you don't please you customers/citizens they won't buy from you and you'll be replaced, try to cut off other businesses, then they would just become another government and should be disposed of according to such ideology.
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