Comments on: spider jerusalem discusses voting

By: reboot

reboot — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:34:55 +0000

To be more specific, the problem with his analogy is that you are not “locked in”. If America gets too bad, the smart people will leave. Without smart people around, it will take about twenty years to become a crap weak country. Then other countries will start to run it until they can get their stuff back together. Same thing happened to the Ottoman Empire, the Germans and the Soviets in the twentieth century. Its the cycle of history, but it doesn’t mean that democracy or voting don’t work.

By: The Lawnmower

The Lawnmower — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:19:30 +0000

I liked it reboot, because that comic is just stupid. I get the feeling I’m missing something, though.

By: Thracian

Thracian — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:57:27 +0000

Would have been better if they’d used “democracy” instead of “voting” but the Principleâ€™s the same and to be fair Spider Jerusalem raises a good argument, direct democrac fails because the will of the majority results in a failure to protect the interests of the minority.

By: Brushaway

Brushaway — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:41:36 +0000

So negative? Great comic, great analogy rant.
Gonna buy that entire series this fall i think

By: reboot

reboot — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:17:16 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Kaze.

By: Kaze

Kaze — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:12:48 +0000

Phail.

Not Epic phail, just regular, ho-hum, run of the mill “phail”.

By: reboot

reboot — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:59:50 +0000

You want to know about bullshit analogies.

Iâ€™m here to tell you about bullshit analogies.

Imagine youâ€™re locked in a huge contrived situation that is completely divorced from reality.

And there’s an external force that goes completely unexamined because if you actually questioned it the entire scenario would be meaningless.

You like to look at funny pictures of cats while your code compiles.

They like to have act tough and come up with intellectually vacuous statements about the nature of the world.

So you take it easy while they work themselves into a frenzy over pointless dystopian views while being too pansy to actually do anything about it.

Thatâ€™s bullshit analogies.

Youâ€™re welcome.