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# Some things should not be left to the public to decide on
Not that it will happen anyway
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:41, archived)
# I'd love the public to decide more things
but we'd need to simultaneously detoxify the media so that people had facts relevant to their class rather than the class of the media owners
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:47, archived)
# That and increase participation so that appallingly low turnouts don't give the right-wing knuckle-draggers a disproportionate share of the vote.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:52, archived)
# Put a dozen Guardian journalists and a dozen Daily Mail journalists in an arena with a variety of weapons.
The winning team gets to write an editorial. Repeat this daily.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:59, archived)
# To quote Emma Goldman.....
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal!"
(I helped save b3ta! Zank Frappa Who let the lefties in?, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 11:40, archived)
# Democracy would be great if people weren't thick and lazy.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:49, archived)
# It's no so much that they're thick and lazy I think
as much as the apathy generated by saturation news coverage by embittered hacks and a political class made up of cookie cutter politics spods like Cameron, Clegg and Milliband-beta.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 11:02, archived)
#
*thick* actively misled and *lazy* tranquilised by the elite-controlled mass media

edit: meh, striek thru not working?
(I helped save b3ta! daveyclayton Gosh, is it really, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 11:02, archived)
# Ha ha ha,
not if you spell strike like that, no.

striek

Edit, it won't work in the Subject line, only in the Message box.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 11:10, archived)
#
I spelled it proper, honest - was just trying to be fluffeh, and in the message field. It showed up in preview but was gone when I posted. Some kind of discrimination at work I'll wager
(I helped save b3ta! daveyclayton Gosh, is it really, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 16:54, archived)