As I scrolled through my Facebook memories, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Skeptic Society,” which I originally posted to my wall in February of 2016, and decidedly re-shared it, while adding a commentary…
“That face you make when you wanted police accountability but voted for more government”
My Commentary: But… Muh Democracy! 😥
The following correspondence originally took place on my friend, Daniel Sv., after he posted a photo he took, and subsequently tagged me within his comments section, upon my act of “liking” it…
Daniel Sv.: Found this at the Barnes and Noble in Princeton. Even academics seem to be debating this now.
“Against Democracy” by Jason Brennan
Daniel Sv.: i’m surprised you’re against it. i guess you believe in small groups coming together for communal good?
Rayn: You’re surprised? I can only suggest that you read more of my posts, then…
Rayn:
“Yo, Dawg! We heard that you don’t like the tyranny of the majority over minority groups…
So, we legitimized the authority of an ultra-minority through a voting majority, so they can tyrannically rule over everybody, accordingly, while you formally select the next elect minority of tyranny to fully control your humanity, in perpetuity!”
(Artwork by Rayn, and originally located here)
Rayn: The Majority Cannot Give Consent for the Minority:
http://acidrayn.com/2016/02/24/the-majority-cannot-give-consent-for-the-minority/
Rayn: Bully System, Run by Bully Politicians, Embraced by Bully Citizens, and Enforced by Bully Agents:
http://acidrayn.com/2016/08/08/bully-system-run-by-bully-politicians-embraced-by-bully-citizens-and-enforced-by-bully-agents/
Rayn: Democracy: A Political System Wherein the Majority Votes Away the Rights of Minority Groups:
http://acidrayn.com/2013/10/28/democracy-a-political-system-wherein-the-majority-votes-away-the-rights-of-minority-groups/
Rayn: Statism is Just Another Mystery Religion:
http://acidrayn.com/2013/09/03/statism-is-just-another-mystery-religion/
Rayn: Constitutional Republic Versus Democracy – Inalienable Rights Versus Mob Rule:
http://acidrayn.com/2010/11/02/republic-versus-democracy-inalienable-rights-versus-mob-rule/
Daniel F.: That is why the United States is a Constitutional Republic. If two wolves and a lamb are voting on what’s for dinner we have some ground rules in place that clearly stipulate that the lamb is NOT on the menu. (Of course there needs to be a system in place to ensure that these rules are not simply disregarded.)
Rayn: Thanks for clearing that up. It was the very point of my short, concise article, of course… But, yeah… Thanks!
Rayn: Without Truth and Justice, Freedom is Lawlessness and Democracy is Mob-Ruled Oppression!:
http://acidrayn.com/2011/02/02/without-truth-and-justice-freedom-is-lawlessness-and-democracy-is-mob-ruled-oppression/
Rayn: Stop Voting for Masters to Rule Over You, or You’ll Always Be a Slave!:
http://acidrayn.com/2016/02/26/stop-voting-for-masters-to-rule-over-you-or-youll-always-be-a-slave/
Rayn: Seems like you may have forgotten about this debate you were involved in, as well…
Debating About Democracy:
http://acidrayn.com/2015/10/23/debating-about-democracy/
Daniel Sv.: Rayn, ah yes i remember now. been feeding my head with machine learning, so some previous things are fuzzy to me.
Daniel Sv.: Just read a chapter now. Very fascinating. Shows how enlightenment thinkers thought getting the then ignorant masses into politics would ennoble us where we would educate ourselves and engage in rational debate. However, we have proved to be not as rational as enlightenment thinkers thought we were (we are capable of rationality, but it’s not our fundamental driver). Therefore, except for a few, politics turns “hobbits into hooligans”, with politics actually making us more stupid as we only seek information that reinforces our biases and discards information which may contradict it since we invest politics with our ego and such contradictory information would crush it. Politics therefore actually corrupts the soul more.
Rayn: Interesting conclusion about corrupting the soul. – especially in consideration of the fact that this article, by Jeffrey A. Tucker, from last year, was making the rounds again, today:
Politics Is Poison to the Human Spirit:
https://www.facebook.com/feeonline/posts/10155002224147392
Daniel Sv.: Of course, one can look at things scientifically, but we would still have our biases. Part of science is to subsume your ego and allow your opinions to be peer reviewed. To put it another way, you would need to allow that different perspectives exist.
Srinivas S.: Our democracy has an electoral college in place for a reason, that is to keep our democracy in place. The media is so anti Trump that I think is ridiculous. I saw some tripe TV show tonight in CBS called the good fight where the lead character plans to move to France after viewing Trump’s election. That is the kind of bias Trump gets. What they are doing is fomenting rifts and disunity.
Tony K.: I wonder whether there is a chapter devoted to returning voting rights back only to those that are property holders.
I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Oakland, California protest against Trump’s Presidential election victory
Calexit: Californians Threaten to Secede from United States Following Donald Trump Win:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/calexit-californians-threaten-to-secede-from-united-states-following-election-result-a3391561.html
(Patrick Grafton-Green) Following the election of Donald Trump, Californians are threatening to secede from the rest of the US in what is being dubbed “#calexit” on social media.
The hashtag, along with “#calefrexit”, began trending on Twitter shortly after it was announced that Trump had beaten Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton on November 9.
That result has sparked protests across the state, including a march involving hundreds of protesters in Oakland.
Mrs Clinton won California’s 55 electoral votes, receiving almost 2.2 million more votes than Mr Trump in the state.
My Commentary: NOW, we’re talking! 🙂 I don’t even care that it’s the same liberals who were against Texas secession! If it takes self-interest to shake off the shackles of Big Gov, so be it! Makes sense, sadly…
And, this is pretty promising, too:
Trump Gives Victory Speech, Liberals Rediscover Appeal of Limited Government:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/09/in-victory-speech-donald-trump-promises
The following debate, “The Prejudice and Elitism of the Left is Showing,” which originally took place upon the Facebook wall of my friend, Daniel Sv, and concluded days ago, was suddenly reignited, after Trump won the election for US President…
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and American actor, Steven Seagal
Daniel Sv.: US Actor Steven Seagal Given Russian Citizenship by Putin:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37858513Daniel F.: Maybe now he can move to Russia and raise the average IQ of both countries.
Rayn: Your prejudice and elitism are showing, Daniel F… Talk about “vile filth”…
Daniel F.: I take that comment back – clearly I grossly underestimated the collective stupidity of this country, as this year’s election has clearly shown.
Rayn: But… muh “democracy”!
[proceeds to weep, wail and gnash teeth]
Rayn:
Rayn:
“Remember: the ones in control are never elected”
Rayn:
![“Democracy: your vote actually counts for very little. The vast majority of the people in control are unelected. The two parties share very similar views on most subjects. In the 110th Congress, people voted for the party line 91% of the time. Only 20.9% of the U.S. population voted for Barack Obama in 2012. Even if your vote did matter, all that you are doing is voting to force your opinions, morals and ideas onto everyone else. (1.9 million bureaucrats: [State, 18,900] [Treasury, 115,897] [Justice, 112,557] [Interior, 71,436] [Agriculture, 109,832] [Commerce, 43,880] [Labor, 17,347] [Defense – civilian employees only, 718,000] [Health and Human Services, 67,000] [Housing and Urban Development, 10,600] [Transportation, 68,622] [Energy, 109,094] [Education, 4,487] [Veterans Affairs, 235,000] [Homeland Security, 208,000]”](http://acidrayn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-09-The-Prejudice-and-Elitism-of-the-Left-is-Showing-Round-2-4.jpg)
“Democracy: your vote actually counts for very little. The vast majority of the people in control are unelected. The two parties share very similar views on most subjects. In the 110th Congress, people voted for the party line 91% of the time. Only 20.9% of the U.S. population voted for Barack Obama in 2012. Even if your vote did matter, all that you are doing is voting to force your opinions, morals and ideas onto everyone else. (1.9 million bureaucrats: [State, 18,900] [Treasury, 115,897] [Justice, 112,557] [Interior, 71,436] [Agriculture, 109,832] [Commerce, 43,880] [Labor, 17,347] [Defense – civilian employees only, 718,000] [Health and Human Services, 67,000] [Housing and Urban Development, 10,600] [Transportation, 68,622] [Energy, 109,094] [Education, 4,487] [Veterans Affairs, 235,000] [Homeland Security, 208,000]”
“2007-2012: Anti-War Movement”
Daniel F.: You realize that come January 20th, someone with the temperament of a toddler is going to have access to our nuclear arsenal. Just let that sink in.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong..?
Rayn: Next time, vote harder! 😉 Democracy, for the win! 🙂
Rayn: Both major candidates were dangerous, pro-war pigs, and yet, Killary had a very well-established history of major war-hawking whenever in positions of State power that few seemed to acknowledge…
I wouldn’t trust either lizard to so much as babysit a pet rock! 😀
Daniel F.: Well thanks to all the imbeciles in this country democracy is probably dead, or going to be in short order.
You will probably find what ends up replacing it even less to your liking
Rayn: Democracy, itself, is a dead, obsolete concept, to me. I do not like it, whatsoever, so I can’t possibly find any replacement “less to my liking.” And, in truth, this country is supposed to be a Republic – though, that has failed, like they always do.
Rayn: DemoRepubliCrats: (n) a group of Americans who vote to centralize their moral bankruptcy, murderous criminality, and insatiable desire for unrestricted control over the lives of others, into the shape of a violent, coercive, non-corporeal, unaccountable military-industrial plutocracy referred to as the “State,” largely in a legal effort to shield all individual members of said cabal from judicial prosecution, by diffusing and ultimately obscuring all personal accountability and private responsibility from the equation, while simultaneously creating a “legal” pretext for severely punitive, “State”-based enforcement of both 100% sponsorship for, and 100% participation in, said criminal racket, through use of extortion, conscription, violence, theft, kidnapping and imprisonment – all to the extreme detriment of the peaceful, non-consenting individuals who either currently live, or were originally born, within the imaginary borders of the “State.”
“American Politics”
I originally posted the following video and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
My Commentary: “Ya gotta vote to keep up the illusion that ‘the people’ are in control!
Ya gotta vote for one of two narcissistic megalomaniacs with no soul!”
“I’m allowed to hide in a booth and press a button – and, that makes me important!” 😉 Yay!
