Virtual America
POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 06:34
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Okay, I said I'd do this, so here goes.
So, America has fallen into chaos, and it's up to us to put her back together, in a digital fashion. I'm the self proclaiming revolutionary of this virtual nation, and I've appointed 6ixStringJoker as my interim Secretary of State. After this transitional period, there will be an election for virtual president that Jo could actually win.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thomas Jefferson:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
The complaints are fairly pertinent to any recent presidentQuote:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Adm
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You don't ask little questions - do you?
If something has gone wrong with our democracy - and maybe it has, and is now a farce of democracy while others run the country - I think it behooves us to ask what went wrong, and how; so we can reclaim it.
But I think the founders were bold in speech, but timid in thought, and even more timid in action. That's why our blueprint is riddled with limitations and hobbles that curb self-rule. Older, wiser, more vested men were always supposed to be the ultimate arbiters.
And - in general - people are happy to go along with someone else's plan for them, as long as there's a reasonable payout.
So maybe what we're looking for isn't freedom per se - because we never actually had it.
Maybe we just want a better deal.
Originally posted by G:
"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.
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Nah, I think actual freedom is the goal. Mine anyway. I'm actually okay with Trump, but this started really because the media has fallen apart, so it might evolve into a media replacement rather than a state, but I'm having fun.
It's important also to remember Jeffrey Tomlinson, who spent 1776 whapping people over the head with a chair whenever they disagreed with him. The founding fathers built Rewd Hall for him, named for Wilson P Rewd, a man of limited social graces.
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I'm the guy to the left of Luke Wilson.
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Can I be a charge of voter fraud?
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
I nominate J0753 for King.
I'd like to suggest two week terms. I think we should vote, every can post on this thread. Let's see if we have a second candidate.
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Where you at DT? Been a month of radio silence from you.
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Quote:
Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
Okay, I said I'd do this, so here goes.
So, America has fallen into chaos, and it's up to us to put her back together, in a digital fashion. I'm the self proclaiming revolutionary of this virtual nation, and I've appointed 6ixStringJoker as my interim Secretary of State. After this transitional period, there will be an election for virtual president that Jo could actually win.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thomas Jefferson:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
The complaints are fairly pertinent to any recent presidentQuote:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new AppropriaNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME