A million spirit stars for user name/voting synergy

As you should be. I submitted it so fast that I didn't realize it was already in there and downvoted myself.

And yes, you win a boner trophy for this comment.

I heartily endorse this year’s trophy winner

I checked the submission hopper before I checked the front page and could not figure out why everybody was down voting this video

Check the dupe checker maybe? Try using tags that aren’t garbage?

Not my video..

Vous ne pouvez pas faire une omelette sans casser quelques œufs, ne-c'est pas?

We’re way beyond the inequality levels of the French Revolution yet no guillotines are being built

https://teespring.com/shop/guillotine-by-da-share-z0ne

Also, there is a part of me that recoils at the celebration of any human's death by other humans, even if that person has done great harm. I'd rather see us build a culture in which individuals can't accumulate the power to do that level of harm in the first place. Relying on the deaths of powerful people we don't like to solve our problems strikes me as backwards. Then again, who knows how long it will be until we actually achieve that kind of society. People are dumb.

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

-Max Planck

The social contract used to be that the wealthy had to reciprocate for access to wealth. The Medicis were obligated to pay for the infrastructure of Florence, be the patrons of the arts, and have openly visual evidence of charity. Yes, of course they were brutal and greedy usurpers who started multiple wars and stole anything they could, but they also produced art.

There are no requirements of social reciprocation now. Grab everything you can and buy politicians so you can buy more.

also now the economy is financialized, so wealth is generated through speculation instead of production.

I was a little bit disturbed that Bill Maher said that he hoped the end was painful. When Osama Bin Laden was killed, a lot of the celebrating struck me as vulgar and inconsistent with my values, but I'm going to let my hair down a little in here, and nowhere else on the internet. I hope the end wasn't painful for him, but I'm glad he's dead.