Congress has a very low approval rating. It's safe and effective to make fun of them. There's been two threads here on/. now and 90% of the comments are defending Amazon over the politician.
Amazon is one of if not the largest company on earth. Everything they're is doing here is carefully thought out and focus group tested. They picked a strategy to manipulate the voting public based on that testing, and as near as I can tell it's working. Anti-Union sentiment is strong despite reams of evidence and re
I know you think politicians are going to save you but they are not your friends. Politicians are enriching themselves on the backs of the taxpayers. Bernie says one thing and walks away with millions. Pocahontas tried to play the race card to gain power and lost. Thuan is why they are hated. Everyone halfway intelligent knows these people are the equivalent of used car salesmen.
It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin
Because everybody hates politicians? (Score:5, Insightful)
Amazon is one of if not the largest company on earth. Everything they're is doing here is carefully thought out and focus group tested. They picked a strategy to manipulate the voting public based on that testing, and as near as I can tell it's working. Anti-Union sentiment is strong despite reams of evidence and re
Re: Because everybody hates politicians? (Score:-1)
I know you think politicians are going to save you but they are not your friends. Politicians are enriching themselves on the backs of the taxpayers. Bernie says one thing and walks away with millions. Pocahontas tried to play the race card to gain power and lost. Thuan is why they are hated. Everyone halfway intelligent knows these people are the equivalent of used car salesmen.
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Ever heard the phrase, "pissing into the wind"?
Re: Because everybody hates politicians? (Score:2)
It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin