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• Moz commented on Burn The Programmer!
  So much for US "democracy" It's the best democracy money can buy. (someone had to say it)...
• Heteromeles commented on Burn The Programmer!
  Nah, we're the Cadillac of democracies. Big, expensive, hard to steer, polluting, and prone to odd breakdowns, and only afloat due to questionable investments and hidden subsidies....
• Moz commented on Burn The Programmer!
  I was thinking it's more the gold standards of democracy: superficially attractive to the uniformed, hoarded and worshiped by a band of crazy-looking weirdos whose views make perfect sense from inside the bubble; but archaic and irrelevant to the modern world and more useful as raw materials for other projects than as an end in itself. Amusingly the religious wrong are now talking about inflicting a bill of rights on Australia. They've lost the "marriage not for gays" battle and are feeling oppressed. Our Attorney-General and his "right to be a bigot" are under siege! Sadly the proposals all look...
• SFreader commented on Burn The Programmer!
  Re: Cadillac of democracies You forgot: and no longer 'made in the USofA'. Cadillacs like pretty well all fossil fuel US-brand cars are -- at most -- assembled in the US. Even a lot of the design has been outsourced....
• Moz commented on Burn The Programmer!
  Arrgh, UN-INFORMED, not uniformed. I see that one second after hitting submit (please master, I beg of you, let me submit). Now I just have to wait while the machine times out it's "one comment per minute" or whatever. Speaking about uniforms, I keep thinking of the "in the USA only the national government is considered government, we never think of the states as having governments, let alone counting local councils as government" discussion and it just weirds me right out. The Governator doesn't govern? I vote someone else tells him that, I'm too chicken....