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Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:58 am
by mrswdk
Which of these movements were/are democratic?

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:28 am
by oVo
Corporate Democracy or kitties?

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:50 pm
by BigBallinStalin
"Democratic"?

Democratically removing someone from office would be impeaching the president. Using force and/or paying people to bomb others (e.g. the No-Fly Zone) isn't democratic. It's "war in action." ....

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:06 pm
by DoomYoshi
BigBallinStalin wrote:"Democratic"?

Democratically removing someone from office would be impeaching the president. Using force and/or paying people to bomb others (e.g. the No-Fly Zone) isn't democratic. It's "war in action." ....


demos - people
cratic - power
(more or less)

Arming each person is the most democratic thing you can do.

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:15 pm
by BigBallinStalin
DoomYoshi wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:"Democratic"?

Democratically removing someone from office would be impeaching the president. Using force and/or paying people to bomb others (e.g. the No-Fly Zone) isn't democratic. It's "war in action." ....


demos - people
cratic - power
(more or less)

Arming each person is the most democratic thing you can do.


Right!
Many Americans democratically tested their firearms at the fire range today.
Many Americans democratically hunt animals on a regular basis.
Democracy in action!

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 5:52 pm
by mrswdk
BigBootyStalin wrote:Democratically removing someone from office would be impeaching the president


What if the president refuses to be impeached?

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 5:56 pm
by BigBallinStalin
mrswdk wrote:
BigBootyStalin wrote:Democratically removing someone from office would be impeaching the president


What if the president refuses to be impeached?


You tell me, My Raving Swedish Winter Deck Caulk.

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 6:31 pm
by saxitoxin
mrswdk wrote:
BigBootyStalin wrote:Democratically removing someone from office would be impeaching the president


What if the president refuses to be impeached?


According to the Cornell Law Review, he should then be killed.

http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/ ... ext=facpub

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 7:04 am
by Phatscotty
JB has joined the Tea Party

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Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 7:45 am
by saxitoxin
Phatscotty wrote:JB has joined the Tea Party


The Jonas Brothers?

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:24 am
by mrswdk
saxitoxin wrote:
mrswdk wrote:
BigBootyStalin wrote:Democratically removing someone from office would be impeaching the president


What if the president refuses to be impeached?


According to the Cornell Law Review, he should then be killed.

http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/ ... ext=facpub


Well then a No-Fly Zone seems fair.

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:48 am
by oVo
Eat a Peach... Right by Might isn't exactly Democracy
since votes are rarely taken prior to actions.

Also there's the problem of misinformation used
to support a military option of force.

Example: the Bush Administration leaks false intelligence info
to the British and doesn't reveal they "made it up" when the
Brits inform them what they know and instead uses that
same info to validate the invasion of an evil dictator.

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:58 am
by Lord Arioch
demos-people
kratein-rule

democracy means that the people rule. The closest we come today is maybee switzerland with their canton folk votes. in no country today does the people rule, they vote thats not the same thing! If i remeber correctly the irokese nation had a rule that were close to democracy...but just as the greeks of old it were for men.

so i would say democracy today is a word thats used to fool people into thinking they are free. which we aint...
so whats worst a "lying" democracy or an truth telling fascist state that clearly states u are oppressed we dont give a f##k:)? in my opinion they are both really bad! BUT i dont think true democracy will ever work in a large scale...so we are stucked with the second best, and all get the politicians we deserve:)

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:15 pm
by notyou2
If I vote multiple times with multiple accounts, is this pole now undemocratic?

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:36 pm
by mrswdk
Nope. This poll has been voted the most democratic thing on the list :D

Can someone who voted for the Vietnam marches but not Tiananmen Square explain their reasoning?

Re: Democracy in action

PostPosted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:15 am
by notyou2
I voted for both.