Very exciting.

Douches gotta douche.

He has no catchphrase

COMPASSION CAN’T MELT HEARTS!!11!

Yeah, I had the satisfaction of reading this aloud to the room immediately after seeing the result. We decided that henceforth Olympic pools should be precision milled from solid blocks of Invar. Problem solved!

Noam wasn’t built in a day.

All I know is that I haven’t seen dollar one yet, and if Barry knows what’s good for him he’ll keep his goddamn word.

Deed you know that parkeenk brake was inwented in Russia?

I can guarantee you that no one will do that.

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.