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MirrorNoir said:
The Valerian is vastly overrated and only notable for the fact that George Lucas shamelessly stole things from it for Star Wars aesthetic-wise and the strip creator calling him out on it in the 80s.
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"vastly overrated"
"only notable for..."
Did the comic creator kick your dog or something? You sound like Roger Ebert reviewing a John Carpenter movie.

The Valerian comics are full of great pulpy Space Opera. It is a masterpiece compared to the dreck put out by the Disney mega-corp nowadays. The Valerian comics have worse prose than Leah Brackett, Robert E Howard, or Philip K Dick, but it's a comic and the words fight for space with pictures. Transmetropolitan or Watchmen have more to say, but Valerian is more fun.

Plus, Washington D.C. is destroyed in the very first volume, so it can't be that bad.
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FILTH Tourist said:
Also, if they fuck up and don't vote for their state's interests they will get an angry phone call from their state legislature and basically guarantee they won't have a job once their term is up. Which is a lot more powerful incentive than getting some nobodies bitching at you and missing out on a few votes.

It should be:
House of Reps: Directly voted in by the citizens.
Senate: Picked by the State.
President: EC with electors voted on by landowners.
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Except the state legislation wouldn't care and they'd laugh at the rabble who can't vote out the Senator Corrupt Fuck.

Direct election of the Senate preventd unelectable cunts from having jobs for life where they can harm the rabble with impunity.
 
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MirrorNoir said:
Except the state legislation wouldn't care and they'd laugh at the rabble who can't vote out the Senator Corrupt Fuck.

Direct election of the Senate preventd unelectable cunts from having jobs for life where they can harm the rabble with impunity.
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Rather than encouraging political engagement (easier), morons want to undo the 17th Amendment (harder).
 
Sammich said:
No, it is not. Once again you show yourself as clueless of the fundamental nature of the United States. Land ownership being tied to voting is one of the bedrock principles, you have to have skin in the game. Getting away from this is almost as bad as allowing tax leeches the ability to cast votes, or childless men and women. When you allow people that have no real cares for the future, you get these useless fucks that only care about how they can can benefit and not their families, you get into the situation we have now. Someone with a million acres or billions in rental homes still only gets one vote, so what you are saying is still pretty stupid.

We got away from the mentality of planting trees that we will never enjoy the shade of, and we really fuckign need to get back to that.
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Spoken like a parasitic neet who lives in the guest room of the house his parents rent, surrounded by pissed filled milk jugs and anime body pillows.
 
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Sammich said:
No, it is not. Once again you show yourself as clueless of the fundamental nature of the United States. Land ownership being tied to voting is one of the bedrock principles, you have to have skin in the game. Getting away from this is almost as bad as allowing tax leeches the ability to cast votes, or childless men and women. When you allow people that have no real cares for the future, you get these useless fucks that only care about how they can can benefit and not their families, you get into the situation we have now. Someone with a million acres or billions in rental homes still only gets one vote, so what you are saying is still pretty stupid.

We got away from the mentality of planting trees that we will never enjoy the shade of, and we really fuckign need to get back to that.
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Because all the rootless global fucks don't own land or will they hesitate to fuck the country over because of concern for their second beach house? Every form of government has problems and people could debate here until new years but the ultimate truth is people get the government they deserve.
 
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UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid said:
"vastly overrated"
"only notable for..."
Did the comic creator kick your dog or something? You sound like Roger Ebert reviewing a John Carpenter movie.

The Valerian comics are full of great pulpy Space Opera. It is a masterpiece compared to the dreck put out by the Disney mega-corp nowadays. The Valerian comics have worse prose than Leah Brackett, Robert E Howard, or Philip K Dick, but it's a comic and the words fight for space with pictures. Transmetropolitan or Watchmen have more to say, but Valerian is more fun.

Plus, Washington D.C. is destroyed in the very first volume, so it can't be that bad.
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it's pretty hard to consider it "overrated" when it's barely known to exist in the English speaking world
 
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Sammich said:
No, it is not. Once again you show yourself as clueless of the fundamental nature of the United States. Land ownership being tied to voting is one of the bedrock principles, you have to have skin in the game. Getting away from this is almost as bad as allowing tax leeches the ability to cast votes, or childless men and women. When you allow people that have no real cares for the future, you get these useless fucks that only care about how they can can benefit and not their families, you get into the situation we have now. Someone with a million acres or billions in rental homes still only gets one vote, so what you are saying is still pretty stupid.

We got away from the mentality of planting trees that we will never enjoy the shade of, and we really fuckign need to get back to that.
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So you want land lords telling everyone what to do? You have clearly never left your parent's house. Your post here totally ignores the fact that all the elites whom you despise own land and have children. You also fail to answer the question of what happens if a major conglomerate literally buys all the land/houses.

I understand that you have a hateboner for anything and everything that I post, Sammich, but the way you go about it is sad.
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Posting in this thread accomplishes neither, so while I'm wishcasting, I'm ending the Fed and growing a 10" dick.
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Fair enough.
 
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Sammich said:
No, it is not. Once again you show yourself as clueless of the fundamental nature of the United States. Land ownership being tied to voting is one of the bedrock principles, you have to have skin in the game.
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Requiring that one has to be a net positive taxpayer for eligibility to vote would be a compromise that I'm okay with.
 
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TerminalTryHard said:
Every form of government has problems and people could debate here until new years but the ultimate truth is people get the government they deserve.
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That's the truth and it's also why NRx/Dark Enlightenment and other forms of pie-in-the-sky min-maxing sperg outs about forms of government are so aggravating to me now. These impossible conditionals make any legal action seem like a waste of time, sticking people on an endless mental circuit of theorizing and discussion rather than real world action. I need things I can do NOW without getting thrown in jail.
 
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Kovachs said:
It doesn't. The Senate has an incumbency rate of at around 85-90% and an approval rating below 20%. The House is even worse.
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I haven't run the numbers but it would be horrifying and darkly amusing if the era of people essentially buying senators had a higher turnover rate and a higher approval.
 
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not william stenchever said:
I haven't run the numbers but it would be horrifying and darkly amusing if the era of people essentially buying senators had a higher turnover rate and a higher approval.
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I would think it would be comparable, but who could say? Interestingly, there is almost no correlation between reelection rates and approval rating.

Edit: I confused the example years I cited. I was referencing from memory and did not utilize these outliers very well. The late 70s/early 80s is an outlier in terms of incumbency rates, but it had comparable approval ratings to our current congress, which has higher incumbency rates. For instance, the reelection rate for the Senate in 1980 was 55%, but the approval rating for congress was 25%. The period of the highest approval ratings since 1974 is in 2000-2002. But the incumbency rate was actually higher in 2022 than it was in 2000-2002 with an approval rating of around 20% (in 2022) vs 50-74% (throughout the years of 2000-2002). The incumbency rate in 2022 was 100%, lmao. The intent with this post was to compare these two outliers to our current incumbent/approval ratings to show that there is not really any way to predict reelection rates based on approval rating. Of course, this is not very in depth at all. I'm just doing a cursory search of approval ratings against incumbency in congress, specifically the Senate reelection rate. The graph I found for approval ratings going back to 1974 includes the House and Senate, so it may affect things when you compare these statistics in terms of the Senate and against incumbency in the Senate. But if you look at the incumbency of the House, there are no outliers during these years at all because it's ALWAYS high. The House has far higher incumbency rates than the Senate as a rule. And even in period of low incumbency in the Senate (the late 70s/early 80s), there is basically no change in the incumbency of the House.
 
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All this arguing over how the deck-chairs are to be arranged within the government is foolish.

Just consult the ancient wisdom of Disney's Aladdin.

Valerian volume 2 (Empire of a Thousand Planets) has a good hook for a start.
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The last time I read these was when the game TimeSplitters came out. How many years was that. Fuck. Somebody build a time machine.

To all those copyright lovers, don't worry I am definetly not reading these on z-lib.gd. And if the three pages I shared exceed "fair use" I will acquiesce to censoring them on behalf of the rightful possessor of the government monopoly granted to the sharing of 50 year old picture books. For I wish to incentivise the creation of derivatives of this work. But, only by an entity that buys the rights using central bank currency with 0% interest and creates a movie franchise that casts every role with a negress who twerks.

My authentic copy comes with a certificate of approval on the last page.
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