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Started by jimmy olsen, October 25, 2011, 09:33:53 PM

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Eddie Teach

#30
October 28, 2011, 08:23:05 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 28, 2011, 07:56:25 AM
So it would be much better if he was an idiot with a non-random status based on family money, like Bush the younger?

:lol:

Bush was famous because his dad was President, not because he had money. And yes, working on political campaigns and running high profile businesses seems less arbitrary as a political springboard than asking a question at a political rally that was the same thing as every conservative pundit in the country was saying.
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The Brain

#31
October 28, 2011, 08:27:43 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 28, 2011, 07:54:11 AM
Actually, I was about to start a thread about a similar topic. The current Polish parliament has 150 (out of 460) new MPs, some of them being small business owners, manual artisans/workers and other people who do not have degrees in law, politiology, sociology or similar politically-oriented studies - and there is an implied tendency among commentators to regard such people as inferior parliament members.

Do you think this is justified?

Since degrees in "law, politiology, sociology or similar politically-oriented studies" are pretty much garbage I don't think it's justified. Real degrees are a bit different.
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garbon

#32
October 28, 2011, 08:31:28 AM
What is politiology?
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The Brain

#33
October 28, 2011, 08:35:30 AM
Grabage.
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garbon

#34
October 28, 2011, 08:38:43 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 28, 2011, 08:35:30 AM
Grabage.

Google gave me back a bunch of czech sites.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
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grumbler

#35
October 28, 2011, 11:49:25 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 28, 2011, 08:38:43 AM
Google gave me back a bunch of czech sites.
Government needs Czechs and balances.
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KRonn

#36
October 28, 2011, 12:16:07 PM
Maybe we need plumbers in Congress, clean up some of the crap going on there.    :D

crazy canuck

#37
October 28, 2011, 03:51:56 PM
Poland citizens may be the only people in the world arguing that more lawyers elected to government is a good thing.  Or is it just Marti?

DGuller

#38
October 28, 2011, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 28, 2011, 03:51:56 PM
Poland citizens may be the only people in the world arguing that more lawyers elected to government is a good thing.  Or is it just Marti?
Does Poland even have lawyers?

Razgovory

#39
October 28, 2011, 05:47:51 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 28, 2011, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 28, 2011, 03:51:56 PM
Poland citizens may be the only people in the world arguing that more lawyers elected to government is a good thing.  Or is it just Marti?
Does Poland even have lawyers?

Not in the same sense that we do.  From what I've read they have "legal shamans", who do statute dances to ward off litigation at the law-moot.  They wear big wooden masks to frighten away ordinance-spirits.
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garbon

#40
October 31, 2011, 02:09:15 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 28, 2011, 03:51:56 PM
Poland citizens may be the only people in the world arguing that more lawyers elected to government is a good thing.  Or is it just Marti?

Probably isn't fair to judge Poland on Marti's merits.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
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Viking

#41
October 31, 2011, 02:15:50 PM
Quote from: Zanza on October 28, 2011, 02:22:35 AM
What is a professional political party?

Parties with organized youth recruitment and mentoring. Parties with structures, leaderships, manifestos and conferances which do policy. Basically formal structures with formal power.
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#42
October 31, 2011, 06:22:28 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 31, 2011, 02:09:15 PMProbably isn't fair to judge Poland on Marti's merits.

Well, there wouldn't be much to go on.

garbon

#43
November 01, 2011, 08:29:45 AM
Quote from: Jacob on October 31, 2011, 06:22:28 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 31, 2011, 02:09:15 PMProbably isn't fair to judge Poland on Marti's merits.

Well, there wouldn't be much to go on.

-_-
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fhdz

#44
November 01, 2011, 03:53:56 PM
The last time we had Plumbers in the government, things didn't work out so well.
and the horse you rode in on
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