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Offline Random Gal

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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4665 on: November 03, 2014, 05:24:57 pm »
That's probably a misconception, but if he had wanted to be king he probably could have gotten enough support to do so.

And he could well have been president-for-life if he hadn't stepped down after two terms in office as well. In fact, it's really lucky that George Washington was a genuinely nice guy who stuck to his principles; if he'd been ambitious enough, he could well have turned the United States into a self-serving dictatorship.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4666 on: November 03, 2014, 05:26:35 pm »
Quote from: Random Guy on November 03, 2014, 05:24:57 pm
That's probably a misconception, but if he had wanted to be king he probably could have gotten enough support to do so.

And he could well have been president-for-life if he hadn't stepped down after two terms in office as well. In fact, it's really lucky that George Washington was a genuinely nice guy who stuck to his principles; if he'd been ambitious enough, he could well have turned the United States into a self-serving dictatorship.

Right.

Of course, it ended up happening a couple of centuries later, but what can you do?
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4667 on: November 03, 2014, 07:24:58 pm »
At least we have an admittedly slim chance of fixing our situation without a violent revolt or international intervention.  Proper dictatorships, more times than not, lack that option.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4669 on: November 04, 2014, 12:28:23 am »
That's wildly inaccurate.  Positioning and campaigning for 2016 began well before the 2014 elections.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4670 on: November 04, 2014, 12:32:22 am »
I guess this fits this thread the best, despite not being a political cartoon exactly.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRwXrcz-F9M" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRwXrcz-F9M</a>

The comments section seems to be very well behaved considering the video subject matteer.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4671 on: November 04, 2014, 10:57:01 am »


Hope this one works.

EDIT: It worked! Anyway, I'm not fully libertarian myself, but I do share some of their tendencies. And yes, I realize some of the things in the "prison wall" are not actually bad things at all.
« Last Edit: November 04, 2014, 10:58:36 am by Nemo »
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4672 on: November 04, 2014, 11:45:42 am »
Quote from: Nemo on November 04, 2014, 10:57:01 am


Hope this one works.

EDIT: It worked! Anyway, I'm not fully libertarian myself, but I do share some of their tendencies. And yes, I realize some of the things in the "prison wall" are not actually bad things at all.

This is probably one of the very few political cartoons with a sentiment that both the libertarians and the socialists can agree on.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4673 on: November 05, 2014, 12:17:07 am »
Quote from: mythbuster43 on November 04, 2014, 11:45:42 am
Quote from: Nemo on November 04, 2014, 10:57:01 am


This is probably one of the very few political cartoons with a sentiment that both the libertarians and the socialists can agree on.

The general gist of that cartoon is pretty accurate, its just the specifics of those bricks that make it a bit silly. Wipe the walls clean and it becomes a cartoon that is basically true to everyone.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4674 on: November 05, 2014, 12:59:20 am »
Yeah, the Fluoride in Water one is particularly silly.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4675 on: November 05, 2014, 03:27:28 pm »
It gets sillier than that; there's also "chemtrails", "ATF", "Agenda 21" and "ticket cameras".
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4676 on: November 05, 2014, 03:32:33 pm »
Isn't Ben Garrison the guy that draws those jews with the massive noses?
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4677 on: November 05, 2014, 03:45:03 pm »
Quote from: Dakota Bob on November 05, 2014, 03:32:33 pm
Isn't Ben Garrison the guy that draws those jews with the massive noses?

I think I read somewhere that those are edits.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4678 on: November 05, 2014, 11:49:47 pm »
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Hopefully this argument keeps going, it's a very interesting one. That said, it's my personal opinion that the answer lies in our much-beloved mixed economy. To me, the ideal economic system would look very similar to the United States economy - just with more regulations and less freedom for corporations to do whatever the fuck they want with our government.

The United States still has a basic contradiction: we accept democracy for our laws, but we tolerate a dictatorship in the workplace. Socialism at least addresses that contradiction.



The easy solution is strong trade unions with a lot of institutional power. If an employer tries to sack a trade union member for being one, jail
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #4679 on: November 06, 2014, 12:24:22 am »
Quote from: Lt. Fred on November 05, 2014, 11:49:47 pm
The easy solution is strong trade unions with a lot of institutional power. If an employer tries to sack a trade union member for being one, jail

And the difference is... what, exactly?

If you give a union too much power, how do you stop it from basically becoming another hierarchy with a "CEO" that hoards all of the money and leverages power to basically "fire" any dissidents?
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