AmidFuror

The roving gangs in the original Mad Max movies were anarchist combat collectives. They’d probably work like that.

i before e except after c.

I had to check. We’re both right / wrong. Difference is about 1.5 sizes.

Minus 2 in US

How often in US democracy does the person with the most votes lose? Even just on the national level, there are several hundreds of people elected every other year.

If you mean the Presidential election, it has only happened 5 times in 200 years.

Referendums are called propositions in the US and are voted on at the state level. Special interests pay tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptive TV ads for or against propositions. The messages tend to be very dumbed down because the average person is too stupid to vote for anything beyond a simple slogan.

Direct democracy leads to a lot of idiot things getting done. Representative democracy was better for a while, but you still get Nazis coming to power from time to time.

Churchill had it about right:

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

So until Japan does that, everything they do or say is not newsworthy?

I may be a Luddite, but I never use the Auto setting for the cars ventilation system. I also don’t want A/C on with heating. If it’s cool outside, I’d rather run the fan harder with no A/C.

At the risk of being impolite, it reeks of cuckoo.

It’s been hip to hate on Americans for decades. It’s just more justified now. But you’re right, not because of bears.

Poor people won’t feel at home if there isn’t trash strewn everywhere. They’d probably avoid going to that place.

We all know there are plenty of trash cans available in non-capitalist societies, and everyone takes turns emptying them.

Your dog will enjoy his special day but then be disappointed it didn’t happen again the next day. Then he’ll get used to normal days until the following year.

You’re not going to get dinner and a movie out of a bear.

You must have a lot of bears in your old neighborhood.

Depends what he ate, as I understand it.

This post gives me a good idea for a new name for a group of clams.

Thank goodness Germany has resolved racism. I’m glad the AfD has thoroughly reformed itself. No wonder they’re getting more votes these days.

This turns the debate about whether a person who converted to Judaism can start making Jewish jokes on its head. Can ex-lesbians make LGBTQ jokes?

Agreed. It’s too difficult to learn phrases like “Help, I’m trapped in an invisible box” and “There is an unexpected rope here” in a new language.