Reposting this beauty from @cawsby yesterday cus it's fucking hilarious and everyone should read it.

  • Rem [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Why, he asked, in one of the most advanced countries in the world, were they still using systems of government from 1787? (“If you drove a car from 1787, it would be a horse,” he pointed out.) Government, he believed, needed an upgrade, like a software update for a phone. “Let’s think of government as an industry, where countries are firms and citizens are customers!” he declared.

    These are THE DUMBEST PEOPLE ALIVE

    • Rem [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      “Democracy,” the two men wrote, “would be upgraded to a system whereby the smallest minorities, including the individual, could vote with their houses.

      How many times will libertarians reinvent feudalism

      • Rem [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Okay just read the whole article, if I posted every hilarious line I'd just be quoting the entire thing lol

          • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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            3 years ago

            The difficulty in starting a new form of government, said Friedman, was simply a lack of space.

            Yep definitely nothing to be done there :gui-better:

        • Rem [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Actually one thing, the writer seems to want to fuck the Captain Harris character, there's smth going on there

          • different_eli [any]
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            3 years ago

            can you please put on your Captain's uniform for this zoom interview...Sir

    • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Someone tell them that the concept of breathing is older than humanity, so they should stop engaging in that

      Also holy shit, you aren't wrong; I am like 5 paragraphs in and it just keeps getting more and more funny