Soundbites - anathema to democracy?

Soundbites - anathema to democracy?

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Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

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Hey, Scriabin. These last 26 posts of yours - 26 separate posts all in a row - are all completely unoriginal cut & pastes of other people's ideas' and 'wit' from other web sites. What's going on? Did you not deduce that this thread is all about RHP posters actually interacting with each other by making up their own sometimes clunky but original 'soundbites'?

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Originally posted by FMF
Hey, Scriabin. These last 26 posts of yours - 26 separate posts all in a row - are all completely unoriginal cut & pastes of other people's ideas' and 'wit' from other web sites. What's going on? Did you not deduce that this thread is all about RHP posters actually interacting with each other by making up their own sometimes clunky but original 'soundbites'?
One who violates one's own thread rules invites thread anarchy.*






* clunky enough?😉

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Originally posted by FMF
[b]Is "soundbite democracy" in fact detrimental - perhaps even fatally so - to healthy deliberative and genuinely interactive democracy?

[quote][i]The world is a complex place and its very difficult to convey all the available information on any issue. Explaining the context, accuracy, probability and every other factor involved in a point of view is nigh ...[text shortened]... e form of SOUNDBITES, strictly no longer than TEN words?[/b]

Let's see what comes of it.[/b]
Brevity is the soul of wit.

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Originally posted by FMF
Hey, Scriabin. These last 26 posts of yours - 26 separate posts all in a row - are all completely unoriginal cut & pastes of other people's ideas' and 'wit' from other web sites. What's going on? Did you not deduce that this thread is all about RHP posters actually interacting with each other by making up their own sometimes clunky but original 'soundbites'?
who cares

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Originally posted by Scriabin
who cares
Just post the link to the web site you cribbed from and don't be such a booboo. 26 separate unoriginal posts? Are you waiting to field our questions on each one?

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LOL! What a twat! 😀😀😀

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Originally posted by normbenign
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Brevity is the enemy of meaningful discourse.

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Originally posted by FMF
What does 'Hating money's like hating work' mean to sweatshop-workers?

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Socialism makes everything into a public utility -- ineffcient, uncompetitive, non-innovative.

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Originally posted by adam warlock
"Money is stored work." Bah, humbug!
Oil is stored sunlight. Money is stored work.

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Originally posted by adam warlock
"Money is stored work." Bah, humbug!
Work to make thing; or, store work and buy later.

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Originally posted by spruce112358
Socialism makes everything into a public utility -- ineffcient, uncompetitive, non-innovative.

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General Motors. Pinnacle of U.S. capitalism. Ineffcient, uncompetitive, non-innovative.

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Originally posted by FMF
General Motors. Pinnacle of U.S. capitalism. Ineffcient, uncompetitive, non-innovative.

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Under capitalism, GM fails. Under socialism, GM stays -- protecting jobs!

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Originally posted by spruce112358
Under capitalism, GM fails. Under socialism, GM stays -- protecting jobs!

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Where can we see this capitalist system you speak of?

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Originally posted by FMF
General Motors. Pinnacle of U.S. capitalism. Ineffcient, uncompetitive, non-innovative.

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GM was innovative and successful; now it's old and tired.

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Why's 'entrepreneurial-spirit' so averse to justice and wider well-being?

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