German voters are set to lose their fleece this Sunday

Skybird · 09-26-09, 03:58 PM

Free choice for everybody!

(original by Der Tagesspiegel, text changes by me)

FIREWALL · 09-26-09, 04:16 PM

Welcome to Democracy.

Platapus · 09-26-09, 07:49 PM

The idea of democracy only involves the concept of choice, it does not address whether those choices are any good.

Stealth Hunter · 09-26-09, 07:50 PM

SPD. It's clearly a caricature of Jimbuna.

Letum · 09-26-09, 08:08 PM

If you don't like the choices; be the alternative or stay quiet.

Platapus · 09-26-09, 09:40 PM

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate?

Or something like that,

Skybird · 09-27-09, 05:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Letum

If you don't like the choices; be the alternative or stay quiet.

If you took any of the choices and see them doing what you should have known they would do, don't criticise them then. You enabled them to powers to do what they do.

If you legitimise the system, you have given up the legitimacy to criticise it if it just does what you had to expect it would do. You are an accomplice, then.

And if you expected it to do something else, than you cannot be helped, and maybe you should not legitimise it. EVERYbody today could and should know what to expect of politicians.

Interesting demoscopic finding first published around two weeks ago: the structure of non-voters has changed, and now include more private businessmen and more self-employed members of the middle class then ever before. Reasons given: a growing disillusionising about lacking abilities and freedoms of politics to act on behalf of the people. A growing number of people think poltiicians do not act on their behalf, but in explicit violation of people'S will (which is fact, btw.). A general feeling of uneasiness about the political going is wide-spread and growing and includes practically all social classes, but the educated middle class and the independent small business class grow faster in size than the other groups. Before the elections started, demoscopes expected the highest number of non-voters ever. It has constantly grown over the past elections.

People learn. Slowly, but they do.

Jimbuna · 09-27-09, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

SPD. It's clearly a caricature of Jimbuna.

Hey!!...I resemble that remark!!

Looking at that sheep I'm bloody glad you made no reference to Grune

Shearwater · 09-27-09, 09:39 AM

Given how close both sides are to each other, voting this time really makes a difference.
On the other hand, this campaign has certainly been one of the most boring I've ever seen. The parties really seemed like they don't care. They just complain afterwards when people don't cast their vote and say it is hurting democracy.

And SPD ain't jimbuna - too slim, too much hair

09-26-09, 03:58 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,605 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	German voters are set to lose their fleece this Sunday Free choice for everybody! (original by Der Tagesspiegel, text changes by me) __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

09-26-09, 04:16 PM	#2
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	Welcome to Democracy. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

09-26-09, 07:49 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	The idea of democracy only involves the concept of choice, it does not address whether those choices are any good. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	If you don't like the choices; be the alternative or stay quiet. __________________

09-26-09, 09:40 PM	#6
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate? Or something like that, __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

09-26-09, 07:50 PM	#4
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	SPD. It's clearly a caricature of Jimbuna.

09-27-09, 09:39 AM	#9
Shearwater Captain Join Date: May 2009 Location: SUBSIM Radio Room (kinda obvious, isn't it) Posts: 542 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 0	Given how close both sides are to each other, voting this time really makes a difference. On the other hand, this campaign has certainly been one of the most boring I've ever seen. The parties really seemed like they don't care. They just complain afterwards when people don't cast their vote and say it is hurting democracy. And SPD ain't jimbuna - too slim, too much hair