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[Flying Dice]

My parents were obsessed with it, so I picked up a lot from second-hand television. My favorite would probably be the man and woman that ended up going to the end together, she won, and then they got married. I mean, damn.

They did a really good job marketing their celebrity after that, too. They've appeared as a couple in like 6 other reality tv shows.

Yeah, it was a pretty smart way for them to go about it. Sort of impressive, honestly.

[Scelly9]

There was one decent fellow a few seasons back, before I stopped watching. Some old guy. He won, IIRC. And he was awesome.

I remember one guy, he didn't win but he was the most manipulative, evil bastard ever. My god, that guy was good.

You just described damn near every person on the show.

Have you seen Russle? He takes it to a whole new level. He stole his own teams hatchet and hid it to make everyone miserable. Also, he managed to find 3 idols.

[MrWillsauce]

You guys and your reality television 

[Urist McPenguinhead]

I go to my school's engineering lab/computer stockpile and play Dwarf Fortress

Lucky! I tried that once and was yelled at by the librarian. I think she said something like "What have you done?! You broke the computer! What are all those numbers on the screen?" She then proceeded to 'ban' me from the library, although I was back at lunch :p

[Darvi]

Who the hell decided that giving people authority over stuff they understand nothing about was a good idea?

[Karnewarrior]

There was one decent fellow a few seasons back, before I stopped watching. Some old guy. He won, IIRC. And he was awesome.

I remember one guy, he didn't win but he was the most manipulative, evil bastard ever. My god, that guy was good.

Was it that chinese-american guy? Yao-something I think? He invented the fake idol. It was fun watching everyone fall for it.

[Oliolli]

Who the hell decided that giving people authority over stuff they understand nothing about was a good idea?

That's democracy for you.

Oh, you were referring to the previous post, weren't you?

[RedKing]

Who the hell decided that giving people authority over stuff they understand nothing about was a good idea?

That's life for you.

ftfy

Even in the People's Glorious Workers' Paradise, there are a lot of people in charge who know fuck-all about the things they're in charge of.

[Karnewarrior]

Autocracies are run by the men with the bigest gun.

Democracies are run by the men with the prettiest face.

Niether of those men have the slightest clue what a "Transportification system" is.

They think it's a sort of plant.

[scriver]

Who the hell decided that giving people authority over stuff they understand nothing about was a good idea?

That's life for you.

ftfy

Even in the People's Glorious Workers' Paradise, there are a lot of people in charge who know fuck-all about the things they're in charge of.

Technically, PGW Paradise would have transcended so far into communism that it would be the purest form of democracy, would it not?

[RedKing]

Who the hell decided that giving people authority over stuff they understand nothing about was a good idea?

That's life for you.

ftfy

Even in the People's Glorious Workers' Paradise, there are a lot of people in charge who know fuck-all about the things they're in charge of.

Technically, PGW Paradise would have transcended so far into communism that it would be the purest form of democracy, would it not?

yes, but even in less pure forms, it is known as the Worker's Paradise, because calling it anything less is a sign of discontent. Which would be counter-revolutionary and not to be tolerated. North Korea is Best Korea, because calling it Pretty Good Korea is a ticket to the re-education camp. Which is likely overseen by a person who knows fuck-all about education.

[Montague]

Well, democracy is supposed to be a meritocracy. It was sort of assumed people would vote for the most qualified people for the job, appoint experts to run certain fields and have these officials accountable and easy to fire.

However... meritocracy is 'elitist' in it's own way and people vote for candidates with 'the best character' and at best, everybody is just voting out of their own self interest.

However, the USA and every other so-called democracy isn't even really a democracy anyways. It's a society of laws. Which is why it functions as well as it does despite everything else wrong with these systems.

I think it might be time to reevaluate how governments are run. Think of a new system that actually works. See what works and what doesn't and base a political ideology or philosophy based on their common themes. Keeping in mind the flawed nature of human beings in a vast society and their foibles. Keep it sustainable too.

Actually, fuck all that, let's just design an advanced AI supercomputer and do whatever it says.

[Hanslanda]

Well, democracy is supposed to be a meritocracy. It was sort of assumed people would vote for the most qualified people for the job, appoint experts to run certain fields and have these officials accountable and easy to fire.

However... meritocracy is 'elitist' in it's own way and people vote for candidates with 'the best character' and at best, everybody is just voting out of their own self interest.

However, the USA and every other so-called democracy isn't even really a democracy anyways. It's a society of laws. Which is why it functions as well as it does despite everything else wrong with these systems.

I think it might be time to reevaluate how governments are run. Think of a new system that actually works. See what works and what doesn't and base a political ideology or philosophy based on their common themes. Keeping in mind the flawed nature of human beings in a vast society and their foibles. Keep it sustainable too.

Actually, fuck all that, let's just design an advanced AI supercomputer complete Dwarf Fortress 1.0 and do whatever it says.

FTFY

[RedKing]

Well, democracy is supposed to be a meritocracy. It was sort of assumed people would vote for the most qualified people for the job, appoint experts to run certain fields and have these officials accountable and easy to fire.

Problem being, how are people supposed to judge who is most qualified for positions that they themselves know fuck-all about? And then actually know anything about the candidates? Democracy is inherently broken by lack of information. And ironically, despite living in the "Information Age" our modern world abounds in a lack of information at the individual level. The system can know trillions of minutiae about a given individual, but the individual has great difficulty getting information about the system.

I've long argued that democracy has an inherent upper and lower bound of effectivity. Too small a population, and you give any one deranged individual too much power. Too large a population, and it simply becomes unwieldy. India's the largest democracy in the world, but that's because it functions more like a confederation of 28 smaller countries. And I use the term "functions" loosely.

I'd be down for the computer thing. I for one welcome our cold, unfeeling mechanical overlord.

[Khorne]

My brothers girlfriend asked me "Who's Stephen Hawking?" I facepalmed hard that day.

You should roll with it. Say he was some famous general or something, who conquered all of Greece and lost it to the Chinese.

The dirty capitalist Chinese.

But then Greece was freed by the revolution thrown by the uber badass, JFK, who was in turn assassinated by Hitler, who would go on to conquer Germany and create the Holocaust.

But you know, Hitler wasn't all bad. He did kill Hitler.

The Nazis also conducted a bunch of scientific research without harming any animals.

They didn't think of it that way.

The world was shit anyways until George Washington was elected, with his vice-president Abraham Lincoln, and he led the Americans to end WWI and WWII in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately I told her how smart he is, and (indirectly mind you) how stupid and ignorent she is compaired to him. She also doesnt know who participated in WWII and WWI. So I'll give her this weird ass story but leave Hawking out and replace him with Albert Einstein.