I’m gonna make this into a poster or smthing, I love it, almost snorted my tea from laughter.

Outside of the US, MOST people who get into politics are at least decently educated. MOST voters prefer intelligent and well-educated candidates.

No. You’re romanticizing. From east to west, north to south, all democracies fall to establishment and “families”, or “parties” and vote on candidates from those. And then enshittification ensues.

There might be singular exceptions on local level, but every country I checked trends to establishment protecting families (or parties) in power and growing it’s own ruling class.

How do you make sure that there aren’t too many ridiculously unqualified people chosen, without outright imposing requirements that could be unfair?

Let’s start with admitting that elections don’t solve for that. When was the last time you saw someone in power and though “yup, they’re an expert and they will make all of our lives better”?

Now if the people were randomly chosen from general populus - that incentivizes highly educated in ethics, morals, well read general population, or you will be ruled by dumb dumbs and your country will make very costly mistakes or implode.

Having said that, your Senate or officials in power don’t have to be extra smart. They can hire smart people. The point of sortition is to create a system where wealthy don’t rule everyone else and create laws unfair to everyone except current nobility.

Apparently it worked, and it could work again because we’re not really being taught that in school. In fact, we’re lied that ancient Greeks used elections in their democracy.

If you go to wiki page you’ll be linked to multiple pro’s and con’s, critiques of sortition, critiques of elecotralism etc. if you have time, sink into that instead of asking a random on the internet like me to assay your doubts.

Ancient Greek democracy, where they used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition (picking representatives at random).

If you’re USian, your jury is like sortition.

If you were classically educated, you’d know the meme is about Sortition vs Elections (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition). The idea is that you can’t have democracy when you have to vote for your representative, because rich families will manipulate the election process. The better solution to pick your Senate would be to randomly select group representatives and have them cooperate.

And that was what Greek philosophers like Aristotle thought ~2300 years ago. Actually all sources we have suggest that Greeks from that era though that elections are undemocratic, and only sortition can provide true democracy.

Seems to be true today when we vote, we pick between turds, and nothing changes for the better. <- and that’s what meme is about

Side note: Carlin was right, you get educated only enough to be able to work for your masters.

How many people looking at that meme even knew about ancient Greeks shitting on elections in favour of sortition and went there, instead of thinking “elections bad? You must want to have a king, you authoritarian swine”

Do you still maybe have a link to the post somewhere? I’m curious how’s Cuba like, I was wondering if I should maybe go for a trip there or if it’s a bad time.

Well… when they’re for example spreading disinformation and propaganda for Russia, that can cost a lot

Yes, I agree, spreading Russia’s misinformation should be combated and illegal.

We need to immediately close and fine Facebook, X and Reddit.

Not everything is (nor should be) about you and your minority of choice though? The faster you learn that the better.

There’s a vast difference between respecting animals and not eating animals, but that would be pointless discussion.

Also I don’t appreciate you trying to offend me by calling me indecent.

My previous comment should suggest that I look for healthy, natural products.

Impossible burgers is Ultra Processed Foods. Famously even South Park made an episode about it.

Lab grown meat will be the same (because it has to be cheaper than meat to be produced on scale, and because even if it starts healthy it’s quality will inevitably go down to make as cheap to produce as possible)

I respect animals but I want to keep eating meat, so I tried looking for, you know, more ethical farms.

The best I could find is a chicken that lives a year before it’s slaughtered (compared to 60 days or less for factory farming), roams and isn’t caged.

It costs 8-12 times more than the cruelty chicken.

God damn.

Krakow is a tourist trap. All touristy places don’t care about returning customers, thus food will be bad, or - if you’re lucky - just meh.

I’m from Poland.

I’m talking Soviet-style, grey concrete commieblocks

So the commieblocks are always:

• few minutes walk from school, kindergarten, grocery, doctor’s office, post, dentist and bus stops
• sane distance from another block
• either surrounded by good greenery, or next to a park
• surprisingly good quality
• small elevator
• little parking spaces

Vs “modern” blocks:

• large elevator
• the blocks are so close, if you open your window you could pee in the neighbours coffee cup
• usually surrounded by pavement, cement, or car parking
• better at noise reduction
• you’re more likely to need a car to go to doctor’s office or drop your kids off, or go to the grocer.

To me the ideal is the commie era urban planning with modern techniques, but that’s uncommon.