The age of information has ruined politics.

[Penish]

Why haven't democratic countries swapped to a direct democracy?

[Mesocyclone]

Just make it where your political power depends on your total net worth. The richest person gets to be President.

[Jibartik]

I once said that zuckerberg was gonna get the nobel peace prize because when the world can see how good everyone can have it with all the positive social media posts we'll just trend towards utopia!

I was so wrong SOO SO SO SO SOOOO wrong lol!

True story

[GinnasP99]

Poll: Should we discuss things that are actually interesting on this forum

[zodium]

the contamination between conspiracy theories and what is customarily viewed as ’real politics' is mutual and irreversible. if the state uses a strategic weapon to distract the masses, this does not mean that the weapon always functions properly or reaches the intended target. strategy is a two-edged sword; contrary to the command perspective, the presence of strategy in the battlefield testifies against its fidelity and alliance. strategic weapons are not merely autonomous in their versatility, but also in their departure from the line of command. the use of trash politics by the state might conform to its micro-politics of anti-resistance, but like all strategic weapons, trash politics have ambitions of their own.

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by Penish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why haven't democratic countries swapped to a direct democracy?

You mean, like, mob rule? Where the a literally retarded person's vote offsets a genius'? Like that kind of "true democracy"?

Was Lenin operating a true democracy? Was Mao? How bout Stalin, Gorbachev, Putin? Who is operating a true democracy?

Should a heroin addict with an addled mind be given an equal vote? How about someone with alcohol-induced Dementia? Are you advocating a system where we are ruled by the most persuasive Pied Piper?

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by zodium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the contamination between conspiracy theories and what is customarily viewed as ’real politics' is mutual and irreversible. if the state uses a strategic weapon to distract the masses, this does not mean that the weapon always functions properly or reaches the intended target. strategy is a two-edged sword; contrary to the command perspective, the presence of strategy in the battlefield testifies against its fidelity and alliance. strategic weapons are not merely autonomous in their versatility, but also in their departure from the line of command. the use of trash politics by the state might conform to its micro-politics of anti-resistance, but like all strategic weapons, trash politics have ambitions of their own.

Well, yeah. The hegemony should not have chosen to open this can of worms. It will be their own undoing.

Take, for example, the tenure of the last administration. (((Their))) media mouthpieces utilized a wide array of disigenuous and nefarious means for twisting news in an effort to manufacture outrage, increasingly so, over the past two decades that culminated in an all out assault on all frequencies 24/7 and now they want to just turn the range back down to simmer.

On the same note, there is a considerable effort toward embellishing non-acheivements with the current administration but the people have become accustomed to utilizing the same lens to view all politik now.

As such, they've sealed their own demise, and the evidence of that lens being applied in areas never intended is prevalent in the public's now-view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Oh vey. Shut it down, indeed

[zodium]

information collects its components from different milieus so distant from one another that they can operate for each other only as outsiders. the release of these multiplicities disguised as one within each information channel is equal to the arrival of the alien not from without but from within. as in the case of a spore about to break open and release its bacteria, this emergence of new life forms and collective information might be apprehended as an insider takeover. the rise of a new species.

[unsunghero]

I personally have never liked the concept of a 2 party system, where trying to cast a vote for a developing third party is throwing that vote in the garbage

It would be much better to have, say, 6 different parties with 6 different ideologies, where some may be very similar but different in important ways. Rather than people being shoehorned into one or the other and then pressured to confirm to each’s hive mind

But a 3+ party system will never happen

[Gwaihir]

Germany had a 5 party representative parliament post WW1. Antifa, which was the largest of the five, resorted to street violence, and an uncompromising brunt upon the political process which drove all 3 of the other parties to consolidate under the Nazi umbrella. Hitler was never voted into power. When all 4 of the parties opposing antifa's bullshit consolidated, the legislature appointed Hitler as the Grand Chancellor.