dimreepr

Contempt should be restricted to the sports field bc it's useful to imagine one is better than one's opponent in order to win a game!!! In rugby, we then shake hand's and applaud them off the field, win or lose... When it's applied to the real world, it just causes conflict and when at war the concept is super-sized to create hatred... Fundamentally were all the same, adults, contempt is for kids fighting in the playground.

It's funnier than that, America has voted in their king and we'll be forced to pay him fealty; the circle of life lends wieght to the irony... 😉😣

It's missing some context...

Yes, not everyone's vote matter, is not the same as no one's vote matters...

Ok, so my definition is, 'everyone' gets a vote and will be required to submit it, even if they don't want to (unless they can't make a significant mark) regardless of age or ethnicity or any other excuse that limits their humanity. As it goes, I think the electoral college system is an excellent way to limit the potential damage of a free-for-all witch hunt, based on the population density...

All we know is, the news is winning making a profit...

You seem to be conflating "pure democracy" with mob rule. @Night FM What is your definition of a pure democracy?

As has been pointed out this isn't the right forum to discuss this.

When is it ever as simply as a pure definition?

Why? As MalcomeX so eloquently put it "we aint never seen a democracy"...

Are you saying that a constitution couldn't be designed, that would make a pure democracy better?

What about a constitutional democracy prevents a pure democracy? Having said that, I don't think the American constitution could work as a pure democracy bc it could easily devolve into city States... Indeed, but a pure democracy would be a better system...

We're (by which I mean the royal we) lucky Mike Pence had a backbone the last time, Trump will have chosen much more carefully, this time; If he wins, we're looking at democracy in the rear view mirror... As @Peterkin suggested there has never been a true democracy, some are closer than other's but it's always a compromise with the self intrest of the wealthier...

More likely Delaware, bc their beauty queen was a very pretty man...

It's a straightforward question, to which the answer is and? Bc 'we' could never visit, to see for ourselves... Why?

It seldom does, when it's much more comfortable over here...

Trump will win, whatever the count and America could lose: they may have already lost bc the political pendulum 'will' find it's zenith due to mass + momentum - resistance; my fingers are crossed, bc this shit spreads like a plague, and we've got a special relationship, lots of touching 🙏

You don't seem to have any idea about how even the basics of an economy works, inflation is the expression of the people who want more than they have now; it's a natural tax on the future, not futures (which is another such expression)...

Indeed +1, all we really need to comunicate in another language is a smile and a willingness to try; the minute we start to think that we speak it like a native, is the minute we start to piss the natives off...

He said, from under his bridge, on a computer powered by the grid and connected to the web... And? Disclaimer 'not everyone that lives under a bridge is evil'... 😣

But you're trying to change it to 'the value of piety', to which I say "whatever floats your boat", because it's no excuse or clarion call to the army of the righteously indignantly, touched... Can you be more specific about my lost argument, please...

Really Luc? you're still making the same mistake, you're conflating 'all of science' with 'all of philosophy'; mostly because, you don't really understand either... @Luc Turpin dude you're bright enough to string out these topics beyond their natural death, I kinda admire that, but for the love of god try listening as well, after which I'd welcome your input...

All I'm arguing is that we're all humans, each one of us is subject to hormones and other chemicals, none of which is in our control and we're taught according to the society in which were spawned. The dislocation of fairness from a witch hunt/mob rule, based on a rumour (or as seen on a screen from a parallax)...

If you say so...

which ones aren't?