# A Resounding Silence....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 4, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663 "2010-02-04T11:02:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@lurking\_guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurking_guest)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/1 "2010-02-04T11:02:29Z")
Yep…here to “Pit” the lot of them.
Politicians, The Military, The “Talking Heads”…
The Oligarchs of every country and every ‘Form of Government.’
See…sshhhh…the thing is…to keep the sheeple working.
No, no. Not just the janitors or the garbage men or the convenience store workers…but also the “Middle Class” folks who really believe that they may become millionaires or billionaires one day.
These cruel, unjust, indifferent governments around the world CANNOT keep functioning without the consent of… the rest of us.
And…we keep giving them our money and our consent.
Why is that? Especially when, at the same time, we work so hard to give them our $$$ ???
The RICH cannot be “rich” without our consent.
The POWERFUL cannot be “powerful” without our consent.
We aid them. We abet them. We enable them.
With our work. Our production. Our work ethic.
Good for us. But waaaaay ‘gooder’ for them.
Do we EVER hear MSNBC “Talking Heads” tell the truth about their ‘Parent Companies’ or the deals they strike for their fantastic wages?
No.
The Government. Business. The Military.
Three huge “Goliaths” to overcome.
Perhaps the serfs will become sick of funding them one day.
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/2 "2010-02-04T11:12:09Z")
Yay! Revolution.
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### Author:  [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/3 "2010-02-04T11:12:46Z")
Just curious, what do you propose replacing government with?
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/4 "2010-02-04T11:24:36Z")
> [@lurking\_guest](#):
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> These cruel, unjust, indifferent governments around the world CANNOT keep functioning without the consent of… the rest of us.
Incorrect, alas. All they need is our acquiescence.
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### Author:  [@lurking\_guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurking_guest)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/5 "2010-02-04T11:29:44Z")
I propose not replacing government with anything at all…except folks who have something more than their own personal gain at heart.
Naive?
What a shame.
It really is a “shame.”
Ever notice how Politicians LOVE to describe themselves as “Public SERVANTS”? And rant on about one another how they’ve given (however many) years to “…serving the public.”
HA!
They KNOW they are “serving” Business and their own personal fortunes and the Military.
“Public” (and ESPECIALLY) “SERVANTS” our asses.
Can we let them get away with calling themselves that anymore?
But how do we get REAL “Public Servants” into our government anymore?
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/6 "2010-02-04T11:30:40Z")
I’m just meek because I reckon that we meeks might inherit the earth one day.
Either that, or
> [@](#):
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> Yay! Revolution.
I suspect our young OP has just enrolled in Sociological Perspectives: Anarchy 101
😃
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### Author:  [@lurking\_guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurking_guest)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/7 "2010-02-04T11:38:52Z")
How droll Kambuckta.
This sixty-something “OP” has been involved in politics since I helped start the first “Young Republicans” club on campus with the help of my Political Science/Philosophy professor in the 60s.
If YOU believe there is no distance between what we live with now and “anarchy”…well, I guess that’s why the sheeple ‘sound machine’ keeps the status quo functioning.
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### Author:  [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/8 "2010-02-04T11:44:59Z")
Oh how I love being called a sheepl. It makes me feel all grown up.
Oh wait, no. That’s not it.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/9 "2010-02-04T11:51:00Z")
> [@lurking\_guest](#):
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> How droll Kambuckta.
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> This sixty-something “OP” has been involved in politics since I helped start the first “Young Republicans” club on campus with the help of my Political Science/Philosophy professor in the 60s.
There’s only _one_ thing more amusing and cringeworthy than a young pol. science/philosophy student.
😛
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### Author:  [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/10 "2010-02-04T11:56:19Z")
> **[THE GOVERNMENT ARE ONTO US!! GET YOUR HATS ON!!](https://b3ta.com/board/9249749)**
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> AND RUN FOR THE B3TA BUNKER!!
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> /catnipp
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> JUDGING IS COMPLETE!!
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> Thanks to the talented and beautiful Flowerpot for her assistance in tallying the votes.
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> Drumroll please...
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> Best Protection from Government Mind Control Waves- Happy Toast
> Most...
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/11 "2010-02-04T11:58:46Z")
We’re gonna need a hell of a long wall to line up all those people against. Maybe we could ask China if we could borrow theirs.
And is there some sort of Godwin’s Law covering use of the term “sheeple”? Because I’ve yet to see it used seriously in any context that didn’t eventually reveal the user to be a frothing idiot.
([Ob XKCD link](http://xkcd.com/610/))
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/12 "2010-02-04T12:03:12Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> There’s only _one_ thing more amusing and cringeworthy than a young pol. science/philosophy student.
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> 😛
Oh, forgot to add that I was one of those many years ago too. Makes ME cringe to think about all the shit I spouted to anyone within earshot. 😉
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/13 "2010-02-04T12:12:11Z")
Here’s a tissue. Please wipe the spittle flecks from your face, then explain what the hell it is you’re ranting about. In English, this time, please.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/14 "2010-02-04T12:17:05Z")
> [@lurking\_guest](#):
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> This sixty-something “OP” has been involved in politics since I helped start the first “Young Republicans” club on campus with the help of my Political Science/Philosophy professor in the 60s.
So you’re saying this is _your_ fault?
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### Author:  [@lurking\_guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurking_guest)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/15 "2010-02-04T12:46:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> So you’re saying this is _your_ fault?
Well, my “fault” in the sense that people get the government they “deserve.”
When less than half the eligible voters, vote - what can one do?
What is the resistence to publicly funded national campaigns to get the business interests out of the campaigns of our legislators?
What makes Democratic Senators fight the regulation of banks?
What makes ANY legislator vote against auditing the Fed?
Money.
Their jobs. Their individual corporate fiefdoms of our legislators - where they may NOT be mult-millionaires or billionaires themselves…but they have the POWER to write the law that affects the money-making power of those monied folks.
So…they must be courted. They must be bought.
A trade.
Simple, really.
And yes, it shouldn’t take much more than the thought and common sense of a young college student to figure it out.
So why does this cycle continue. And continue?
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/16 "2010-02-04T12:52:30Z")
Did you know?
Paragraphs can.
Be.
More than one sentence.
Long?
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/17 "2010-02-04T12:53:14Z")
> [@lurking\_guest](#):
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> So why does this cycle continue. And continue?
Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around. Money makes the world go around, it makes the world go 'round.
😛
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### Author:  [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/18 "2010-02-04T12:56:48Z")
I wish the OP would end his posts with
Burma
Shave
I also wish he’d realize that Soylent Government is made made of _people_! :eek:
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/19 "2010-02-04T12:59:54Z")
At least we have a prophetic frothel to tell the sheppl they are being eaten by the gluttonous.
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### Author:  [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-resounding-silence/527663/20 "2010-02-04T13:01:53Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#):
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> At least we have a prophetic frothel to tell the sheppl they are being eaten by the gluttonous.
Fo sheeple my nipple… no wait…
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