Dave’s not here.
Worth $3 billion, $350 million, and (collectively) $300 million, respectively. What’s your definition of “not all that rich”?
Then I won’t list the dozens of other self-declared socialist states that would doubtless be deemed far from perfect examples, and just ask you for your preferred examples, which would form a large enough source base from which to draw conclusions.
Excellent analysis, thanks for the link. However, I didn’t say it requires ethnic homegeniety to work. I said it requires a balance between ethnic and cultural homogeneity and authoritarianism to work. There’s a difference. The Scandinavian collectivist cultural attitudes expressed by the Law of Jante - essentially,…
Socialism tends to require a balance of two things to operate at all, in greater or lesser degree: authoritarianism, and an ethnically and culturally homogeneous population. If you have more of the latter, you can go easier on the former (viz, the Nordic Model). If you do not have an ethnically and culturally…
That’s a lovely buggerette.
Yeah, it’s lazy. But then, it kind of fits in with the ethos of the R&M universe(s), anyway - it’s all an accident, nothing really matters. It’s nihilistic alternate-universe TV, unlike on Futurama, where the future TV generally had some sort of point (even if it was just a joke or satire).
“A whooole lotta sevens! And a set of threes!”
That kind of thing has no place in a democracy or a republic or whatever you want to call us. The people that represent us need to be able to relate to us. Every little bit counts, even if it’s having to circle the block for a spot like every other plebe.
That is not a Dorito.
That excellent plan presents insufficient opportunities for graft, and will therefore never come to pass.
Do you know of...Vine?
The son of David Bowie made this? Fuuuuuck.
THAT’S WHAT SHE SA-
Yes. I’ll get the rope.
He knew.
It was sweetest, most innocent bukkake, wrapped in colorful foil and hidden within the plastic grass of a basket that had something to do with Jesus.