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Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by hahainternet on Friday November 06, 2015 @07:30PM (#10522981)
> Democracy is all about people being jealous of royalty (kings, feuds, pharaohs) having all the power, land, free food and honors, for just being "born" special, and putting and end to that charade.

I'm curious, are you saying that with a straight face? Because there's no way you can look at capitalism / US politics and believe that it's any different.

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Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by ionised on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:00PM (#10534156)
The US Republic is a farce of democratic processes for sure, but they at least did that to themselves. They were given a choice.

If they fucked it up and created the plutocracy they did, fine. That was their mistake to make.

We still have an unelected upper house of parliament that actually has power, as well as our unelected, divinely appointed monarch.

We were never given the choice of fucking up our own republic. We should have been by now.

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Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by coldtea on Friday November 06, 2015 @07:55PM (#10523055)
My point wasn't to glorify capitalism/US politics (besides I'm not American). It was to put feudalism in perspective.

That said, modern government/economy is unfair too, but at least those on top get their power from something tangible (money) as opposed to some bloodline and most people are not exactly serfs.

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