bitcoin as a global medium of exchange (was Re: Interesting take on Sanjuro's Assassination Market)

[Cathal Garvey (Phone)]

Welp, I got you to concede in favour of semantic frippery, so I'm done here. :)

Juan Garofalo <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Saying "democracy doesn't work" is meaningless. 
>
>	That is because the term "democracy" itself is meanignless. 
>
>> Democracy means, in
>> ideal, "rule by the governed".
>
>	See? "rule by the governed" is a contradiction in terms. 
>
>
>> If your examples don't fit that criteria,
>> they're not really democracies, just as the USSR wasn't really
>socialism,
>> England isn't really monarchism, and The Republic of Ireland (not
>> currently concerning itself with matters of the res publica/ public
>> interest) isn't really a Republic.
>
>> 
>> "James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
>>> On 2013-11-27 10:26, Al Billings wrote:
>>>> If democracy doesn't work, what are people suggesting? Is this when
>>> the
>>>> Libertarian masks come off?
>>> 
>>> Monarchy, anarcho capitalism, anarcho piratism, military
>dictatorship. 
>>> Or perhaps a republic with the franchise limited to property owning 
>>> heads of households with good credit records.
>>> 
>>> Observe that police in wealthy neighborhoods are much better than
>>> police 
>>> in poor neighborhoods.  Do you think that is the result of voting?
>>> 
>>> You presumably agree that the people's popular democracies were not
>all
>>> 
>>> that democratic, because they made sure that everyone voted
>communist, 
>>> and a party member always got elected, and it did not matter who got
>
>>> elected anyway since actual decisions were made elsewhere.
>>> 
>>> Well that is pretty much the system we have in the western
>democracies.
>>> 
>>>  The actual decisions are made by the permanent and fireproof 
>>> bureaucracy. If the elections come out wrong, they ignore the result
>>> and 
>>> work to make sure the next elections come out right.
>>> Brainwashing in school, population replacement, and if that does not
>
>>> work, the permanent and unelected government just ignores the
>outcome
>>> of 
>>> the vote, as for example the various votes on affirmative action and
>
>>> immigration.
>>> 
>>> One demotic regime, turns out in practice to be remarkably similar
>to 
>>> another demotic regime.
>> 
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