A Complete Unknown

[Hasbinbad]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/bigbrother/article-1206617/Like-complete-unknown-Bob-Dylan-frogmarched-collect-ID-rookie-policewoman-fails-recognise-scruffy-music-legend.html

[Kagatob]

Music is important to HBB.

HBB refuses to accept that music might not be as important to others as it is to him.

HBB also fails to acknowledge that impersonators and lookalikes exist.

http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/droids3.jpg

Move along.

[Malice_Mizer]

Bob Dylan then proceeded to berate the young officer, violently quoting scripture at her.

[Kagatob]

You'd think HBB would have more problems with the fact that someone was required to show "their papers" to be allowed on a public street. Wait Bob Dylan's white so he deserved it or something like that.

[Hasbinbad]

Bob Dylan then proceeded to berate the young officer, violently quoting scripture at her.
I have no idea why, but after reading this twice, I laughed out loud on line.

[Sidelle]

She didn't know what vinyl is? How can she not know that? Or is it weird of me to think everyone has heard of vinyl?

Now I feel old and sad.

[Hasbinfat]

22 years old + woman + police officer = dumb as a rock in three different ways

[Barkingturtle]

She didn't know what vinyl is? How can she not know that? Or is it weird of me to think everyone has heard of vinyl?

Now I feel old and sad.

Most people under twenty-five have never even owned a cassette.

[Alawen]

Vinyl isn't a dead medium, though. Niche, but still produced. Cassettes are completely historical.

[Alawen]

I just realized that weebo has never made a post worth reading, so I'm actually going to use the ignore feature on him.

[Hasbinbad]

I just realized that weebo has never made a post worth reading, so I'm actually going to use the ignore feature on him.
i can only assume you mean kobotags .. welcome to the club

i don't even click "view post" anymore, which used to be a game for me

[Kagatob]

Aaaand the faggot brothers have officially run out of steam.

You two should just go hook up already, now that it's legal in Cali and all.

[Kagatob]

HBB gonna have to be the one who does all the traveling though. Poor widdle Alawen still has that phobia of things that go 'vroom'.

[r00t]

Still don't get why its legal in cali when everyone all voted against it. It's like we live in a republic not a democracy or somethin

[Malice_Mizer]

Still don't get why its legal in cali when everyone all voted against it. It's like we live in a republic not a democracy or somethin

"Democracy" and "Republic" are not mutually exclusive ways of describing a government.

We have representative democracy. We are also a constitutional republic.

[Hasbinbad]

"Democracy" and "Republic" are not mutually exclusive ways of describing a government.

We have representative democracy. We are also a constitutional republic.
Neither of those things are true, as they are not descriptive of the three branches of american government, which is where power is collected.

The closest you get to describing the government in this country is "american democracy," which is a euphemism for "a constitutional, indirectly democratic republic, mediated by legislation & the judiciary," or something.

[Hasbinbad]

"a constitutional, indirectly democratic republic, mediated by legislation & the judiciary,"
lol statism

[Hasbinbad]

And really, even that does not take into account the fact that all three branches of government in this country are controlled and / or influenced by (mostly) corporate interests. It would be disingenuous to describe the GOTUS without some mention of the vast control exerted by non-human entities.

[Hasbinbad]

And even then, the voting public is directly and indirectly controlled by media, so you must also give a nod to the zombie apocalypse.

[Hasbinbad]

American Democracy:
an interpretively constitutional, indirectly media-democratic republic, mediated by corporate controlled legislation & the manipulated judiciary.

[Malice_Mizer]

Neither of those things are true, as they are not descriptive of the three branches of american government, which is where power is collected.



Virtually any constitutional system that has elected representatives also has a body of unelected judges and an elected (directly or indirectly) executive. The entire premise of the government rests upon the idea of representative democracy

It is an inherently democratic system that is built upon the idea of balance of powers, and therefore is not 100% directly elected by the voice and power of individual citizens alone. 100% democracy is mob rule. 100% democracy is fucking referendums to maintain segregation in the south and to justify Prop 8 in California. We have unelected judges to call that shit out for a reason, and it's a necessary function.

It's still both a representative democracy and a constitutional republic. That's just the way the government is structured. It works imperfectly, definitely. But it doesn't negate its legal basis as having a constitution as the highest law, representatives elected by voters to create laws, an elected executive to enforce the laws, and an unelected (extremely important feature) judiciary. Bad shit happens when judges are directly elected.

"Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally—either directly or through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws."

[Kagatob]

Starting to think Malice_Mizer is just a HBB alt account.

Thread needs more Hasbinfat.