TopTierHealer
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I forgot about the gag where the Italian gets pegged in the ass, classic Disney.
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Democracy, for Aristotle, was an inherently unstable and even corrupt form of government. When he uses the word, he probably means something more like “mob rule” for us, comparing to the more favorable “polity”, which was a virtuous democratic rule for all citizens. The biggest problem he saw is that if pure democracy was implemented is that it was obvious that the poor would simple immediately vote away the property of the rich. Keep in mind Aristotle lives in a time of more or less feudalism, where a very small number of men would own estates, and the large majority of uneducated, illiterate “masses” worked for them. It seemed obvious that if one man owns an estate, and a hundred men work for him, if they are all given equal vote, the masses will simply vote to divide the property among themselves. Aristotle viewed this as bad, both probably because he was in the upper class himself, and because it would cause mass social upheaval and instability.
Aristotle’s solution to make democracy work was more or less reduce wealth inequality. He noted that democracy worked fine in the country where everyone was a farmer, and owned their own land, because no one would vote to take anyone’s property. He thought this could be replicated in the cities if the middle class was the strongest force, and voted for the good of everyone. Essentially, if the rich and poor were at war with each other, with extreme wealth stratification, democracy couldn’t work because the poor would outnumber and dominate the rich.
The strange thing is, of course, that this has never happened in a democracy. America has always had extreme wealth stratification, and the poor have never voted away the property of the rich. The founding fathers, of course, read Aristotle significantly. They had another solution in mind however, which was to limit democracy’s power via “checks and balances”, which are set up largely to prevent the poor from voting in their own class interest, as Aristotle thought they would. For example, in America, if the poor masses voted to seize the property of the rich and distribute it among them, the Supreme Court would simple say, “nah you can’t do that.”
Even more striking however, is that in recent times the “mob rule” that Aristotle feared, is actually in favor of taking money from themselves and giving it to the rich! Aristotle, believing that men are the “rational animal” above all else, would probably be in disbelief at how it turned out.
Aristotle’s solution to make democracy work was more or less reduce wealth inequality. He noted that democracy worked fine in the country where everyone was a farmer, and owned their own land, because no one would vote to take anyone’s property. He thought this could be replicated in the cities if the middle class was the strongest force, and voted for the good of everyone. Essentially, if the rich and poor were at war with each other, with extreme wealth stratification, democracy couldn’t work because the poor would outnumber and dominate the rich.
The strange thing is, of course, that this has never happened in a democracy. America has always had extreme wealth stratification, and the poor have never voted away the property of the rich. The founding fathers, of course, read Aristotle significantly. They had another solution in mind however, which was to limit democracy’s power via “checks and balances”, which are set up largely to prevent the poor from voting in their own class interest, as Aristotle thought they would. For example, in America, if the poor masses voted to seize the property of the rich and distribute it among them, the Supreme Court would simple say, “nah you can’t do that.”
Even more striking however, is that in recent times the “mob rule” that Aristotle feared, is actually in favor of taking money from themselves and giving it to the rich! Aristotle, believing that men are the “rational animal” above all else, would probably be in disbelief at how it turned out.
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im sorry but if you try and address serious topics with a cute looking artstyle i will not take your shit seriously
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Frightened Rabbit
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Would be funnier if Aristotle ran to the ballot box so he could vote on the racist guy, Ancient Greece is known for being progressive aren't they?
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It's almost like nobody wants to give up the power given to them.
TopTierHealer
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Another trip down memory lane - Cracked once posted an article titled "5 ways to know you're dealing with a pseudo-intellectual" (yes, the irony was lost on them) and number 4 or so was, "They keep going back to the Greeks to support their argument or present the Allegory of the Cave or Prisoner's Dilema as some sort of ultimate truth regardless of the context". I wonder what Mr Aristotle Simp would think of the concept of Natural Slavery.
RazorBackBacon
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I will be dipped in shit and set on fire if I ever read another talking head strawman comic.
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I just noticed the fat flute player in addition to being shown as a little fabulous and making a little exclaimation when he gets the trombrone between the cheeks has a patched hole in the seat of his pants.
As a kid I thought it was just making them look silly with poorly repaired clothes.
Now I realize Rohm will never recover from this level of call out.
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I always assumed that fatass Nazi was Göring. Because him being a fatass was very easily exploitable in propaganda cartoons.
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I think he knew of the Bell curve and that at least 50% of people were absolute total retards, and having absolute retards vote would 'cause retardation amongst people. It's as if in another country, in modern-age, half of the country are retards and vote for retarded candidates, so perhaps he was correct, how interesting. Yes, I'm talking about liberals, for fuck's sake.
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There is a reason why the US originally required voters be land owners. Retarded layabouts would be pre-filtered away from the voting rolls.
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So, say, Paul Erdos couldn't vote, but Nick Rekieta could.
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Owning land was a lot more involved back then. Change it to be net tax payers get the right to vote and the problem is solved.
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I'm sorry but if you murder your boss in front of a coworker that he was creeping on and that coworker immediately starts congratulating you on "doing a good deed" and isn't taken aback whatsoever and even starts asking what to do with the body, you need to get the fuck out of there. That coworker that you were apparently protecting is acting like a serial killer or a hallucination.
I can't even root for you on a normal level because you brutally strangled someone to death like Bane when just reporting him to HR or breaking his nose would've sufficed.
It just feels like a "and then the bus clapped" murder fantasy that permeates a lot of troon art.
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TopTierHealer
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Yep, (((wikipedia))) tells me it's Goering. I don't know why my brain went straight to Italy (probably because he was fat).
Correct, which is why I didn't give it a second glance. It's not an elaborate plot, it's just mid 00's edginess with modern day sensibilities. No need to dig deeper than that. These idiots operate on such a childish worldview that debating a deeper meaning of a cartoon crocodile putting on a sundress and eating her boss is a waste of braincells.
Here's the polar opposite: a canadian actually asian webcomic artist that made like 7 comics and now just sells her cutesy characters' merch:
I imagine that croco-chan is the same except with a metric ton more pretentiousness. The artist could't just draw a crocodile doing girly things, she had go all DEEP PLOTS and make it retarded.
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Yeah, pretty much. Hence why I kinda didn’t bother to mention the other chunks about Margarine and Croco because it’s mostly just “Oh nooooo trauma” and “oh nooooo society being mean means I can’t be a normal girl” as justification for her being a murderer who eats people.
Still pretty hard to take seriously, especially since most of the rest of the artist’s stuff is pretty tame cute stuff. Well, other than the aforementioned dog getting his gay mobster buddies to kill his abandoning mother for giving his grandma a heart attack ig.
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It also bugs me how underdeveloped all the background characters are. I know they're background characters, but one of the points of these animal cartoons is that you can easily add a lot of characterization by choosing a species. But instead they're just gray blobs. And frankly, even when they're more than background characters, their dialogue and expressions are interchangeable, petty, judgemental shit that exists for the sole purpose of making the main character's violent outbursts justified. I don't fundamentally have a problem with the basic premise of cutesy murder comic, but this is a really bad execution.