The Japanese government prevents last moment Superbowl rescheduling

[Leeea]

So . . . pandering?

Who will speak for the only moderately rich guy who got bumped from Henderson Executive Airport?

Can you feel his pain?

yep, pandering.

no, not really. I don't feel his pain at all.


I am sure after I buy my first private jet I will feel differently. In the interest of helping me feel his pain, would you be willing to assist me with that?

 

[mikeymikec]

Nope! My knowledge of obscure teams in niche sports isn't great!

join the club

 

[Leeea]

"The people" whose will was served giving Tay Tay her flight are also "the people" who gave us Trump.

considering they were Japanese citizens, that seems highly unlikely.

more importantly, it is hardly tyranny when a large group of people want something, and the rest simply do not care.



That is very different from your example, which is a highly polarized example. Giving Taylor her priority flight out of Japan effects almost no one, nobody in Japan feels harmed, and her fan base in Japan is delighted.

Trying to turn this into the tyranny of the majority is ... silly.

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As for the other end, well, take that issue up with Vegas. I can guarantee you nearly everyone in that city wants Tay Tay to be there regardless of what they feel about her.

F tyranny of the majority.

Think about the folks that need to make their rent. Their mortgage payment. They are the ones who will tell you they paid to build that airport out of their tax dollars. They are the ones to tell you it is their airport, they sacrificed to build, to bring money into their city, and that is its purpose. If they have to bump some rich guys private slot so it can fulfill what they sacrificed for, well fuck that asshole.

 

[soulcougher73]

De Tocqueville famously warned about the tyranny of the majority. The guy was brilliant and deeply perceptive as he surveyed democracy in action in America early on.

"Yet where absolute monarchs had failed, democracy succeeds, for the strength of the majority is unlimited and all pervasive, and the doctrines of equality and majority rule have substituted for the tyranny of the few over the many the more absolute, imperious and widely accepted tyranny of the many over the few."

"The people" whose will was served giving Tay Tay her flight are also "the people" who gave us Trump.

Our founding fathers were no fans of unfettered "will of the people." Ironically, that was the whole point of the Electoral College. "The people" couldn't vote for US Senators until 1913.

I'm not saying there's any better way. I'm with Winnie Churchill on that. I'm just saying, like De Tocqueville, that the "will of the people" can be a double edged sword.

Winnie has a few parting words for you:

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Trump was given to us by the flawed EC, not the majority of americans. he lost bigly on popular vote.

The opposite is tyranny of the minority. A much much worse proposition, because where does the minority stop? Majority has a stopping point.

 

[IronWing]

De Tocqueville famously warned about the tyranny of the majority. The guy was brilliant and deeply perceptive as he surveyed democracy in action in America early on.

"Yet where absolute monarchs had failed, democracy succeeds, for the strength of the majority is unlimited and all pervasive, and the doctrines of equality and majority rule have substituted for the tyranny of the few over the many the more absolute, imperious and widely accepted tyranny of the many over the few."

"The people" whose will was served giving Tay Tay her flight are also "the people" who gave us Trump.

Our founding fathers were no fans of unfettered "will of the people." Ironically, that was the whole point of the Electoral College. "The people" couldn't vote for US Senators until 1913.

I'm not saying there's any better way. I'm with Winnie Churchill on that. I'm just saying, like De Tocqueville, that the "will of the people" can be a double edged sword.

Winnie has a few parting words for you:

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Kicking Churchill out when the need for him passed was very wise. The guy was a first rate asshole.

 

[HomerJS]

Crazy right wingers forcing the Pentagon to respond to their nonsense.

This is what the right has brought this country to. If I were in charge of the Pentagon, I would have quoted William Shatner when he addressed all the Trekkies with 3 words...

"Get a life"

 

[HomerJS]

I'm not saying there's any better way. I'm with Winnie Churchill on that. I'm just saying, like De Tocqueville, that the "will of the people" can be a double edged sword.

Winnie has a few parting words for you:

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Yes, it can be, but we know apartheid doesn't work.

 

[BoomerD]

I am still confused about this owl people talk about every year. What is so special about the owl? How is it suburb?

Dude...it's not special...it's SUPERB!