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    In Defense of Flogging

    What did the sadist say to the masochist?
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    Why Democracy fails

    hey guys it turns out even in democracies people take what they want and give no fucks
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    Why Democracy fails

    if democracy is the tyranny of the majority why are minority issues so important? Democracy only implies the nominal equality of individual political participants. Thus minority voters are just as important/powerful as majority voters. In a democratic system it is the responsibility of...
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    Why Democracy fails

    Thanks for the insight Machiavelli.
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    Why Democracy fails

    Wouldn't a degree of disorder be manifest in any social organisation with rational and irrational constituents with an incredible capacity for cognitive dissonance? What if our current (representative) system is based on incomplete or incorrect notions of rationality? People aren't pure causal...
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    Why Democracy fails

    wait so is rational or irrational action the fundamental failure in democratic society maybe the rational choice paradigm makes it rational to perceive or misinterpret problems with democracy p.s. shadow democracy is a godawful theory. p.p.s democracy is a misnomer. is democracy the right to...
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    We should get rid of ANZAC day

    America joining WWII Vietnam War Bay of Pigs Somalia Yugoslavian interventions First and Second Gulf Wars (neocons are foreign policy leftists i.e. liberal internationalism) lefties starting the wars
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    ANZACs didn't fight for the muzzies and homos

    The Turkey today is not the Turkey the muzzies fought for. Oh wait.
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    We should get rid of ANZAC day

    Lefties are the ones starting the wars.
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    We should get rid of ANZAC day

    cosmo what do you think about the high likelihood that any eugenics program would likely 1) be captured by special interests 2) be victim to the fallibility of all human constructions. In other words, should we even bother knowing we'd probably fuck things up worse than they are now and not...
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    We should get rid of ANZAC day

    von Ribbentrop didn't help.
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    NAPLAN results determining access to teaching university degrees

    I appreciate some of the things he said but that was just sophistry, cosmo kramer.
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    qanda

    You should tweet in.
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    Why do people invoke 'fox news' when talking about Australian takes on issues?

    Because the Australian discourse lacks the ferocity of the US Israeli-Muslim discourse. Ergo through the magic powers of the internet those interested in the issue tend to be steeped in the US discourse and therefore argue accordingly. It's stupid.
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    NAPLAN results determining access to teaching university degrees

    No but seriously, why can't I sell my child into a corporate education scheme. And don't give me any nonsense about civic virtue or Adam Smith and 'ineffectual operators'. Edit: Wait, this sounds like medieval European apprenticeships.
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    NAPLAN results determining access to teaching university degrees

    Why do we even have public education? Parents should have the ~~~~freedom~~~~ to sell... err I mean, participate in a competitive bidding program to place their child into a corporate education scheme, where they'll learn what they need to know, not what some brewercrat tells them what to know.
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    BOS State Election Exit Poll

    Did anyone notice that there was a guy named Dolphin on the Outdoor Recreation LC ticket?
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    Zeitgeist: Moving forward | official release | 2011

    I don't deny there are valid elements to post-scarcity thinking, but I'm quite certain that if we find ourselves in a post-scarcity world, it will be through an organic/heuristic process that had nothing to do with previous thinking.
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    NSW State Election Voting Intentions

    Just defaced some Barry O'Farrell and Building Australia posters in my immediate area. POLITICAL ACTIVISM
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