Petro wrote:
Even if one assumes that the G8 reps from this country are directly appointed by elected officials (and it's not a bet I'd be willing to take), I'd bet that most of the others are not.
Maybe yes, maybe no, but the G8 are all nominally democratic. Anything to back up your assumption? Anyway, democracy is just the dictatorship of the proletariat. I'm against ALL dictatorships. As I've been saying, having either of those sets of monkeys at Genoa having any power over me is not my ideal.
No argument there, but I think the barbarians at the gate (the rioters) would be infinitely worse.
Nah, most of them don't have guns.
It was a hypothetical statement. If the rioters were in charge they WOULD have the guns, by definition. Were that the case, I think they would be infinitely worse.
..."90% of EVERYTHING is crap."
Oh, and optimist.
Yeah, I thought so too.
The system, at least the part that really bothers them, cannot be changed.
The laws of physics, as near a we can tell are, outside of a black hole, fairly impervious to change.
So your beef is against physics? Man, and I thought those rioters were wishful thinkers. What's at the top of your list, gravity? Rock on. S a n d y