Elmofongo: Litirally whats the point of money when the whole human race is arrested, no one will be buying anything or going to events like movies and concerts etc. when they are all in jail. And think about it I think some of these corporate suits and politicians and celebraties are guilty of streaming copyrighted material aswell so they fucked themselves for passing this law. Cities and towns and settlements will start being empty because everyone pirated gangnam style.

Are these people so ignorant, narrow-minded, short-term thinking, less than human creatures not see how illogical this bill is?!

Fesin: But prisoners are a cheap work force you can exploit! They have nothing else to do and you can literally pay them cents per hour. Not even China can compete with that!

Elmofongo: But than people will rebel and world war 3 will start, hard to believe World War 3 will be caused by people pirating movies and music rather than a more important reason.

Fesin: I don't know about the US, but here in Austria, you could kill each first-born child and people wouldn't rebel.

Elmofongo: Are these people so ignorant, narrow-minded, short-term thinking, less than human creatures not see how illogical this bill is?!

Fesin: But prisoners are a cheap work force you can exploit! They have nothing else to do and you can literally pay them cents per hour. Not even China can compete with that!

Darvond: Yes.

These are the same groups of people who want to elect an invisible pink unicorn, for example.

IAmSinistar: Speaking from within the belly of the whale, we do not have a two-party system in America. Due to too many factors (campaign finance, unregulated capitalistism, egregious lawmaking, toothless tort reform, partisan media), all the highest offices are occupied by people beholden to corporations above and beyond any other concern. There is no representation of the common people, and no possibility of reform under the current system. All the two parties represent are different flavours of social issues and a sliding factor of the propensity to go to war.

The same people (Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner) have been making economic policy regardless of who is in office for ages. The banks get whatever laws they want passed, and bailouts whenever their own mistakes come back to bite them. Environmental policies are eviscerated, prison workforces are made available at slave wages, medical costs are allowed to remain arbitrary, and copyrights are extended in perpetuity, all at the behest of those who are truly represented by the American government.

So no one should be surprised that when a powerful business lobby shows its ass, Washington's first instinct is to pucker their lips.

Darvond: This is where I mumble buzzwords like, 'Division of regency', 'Federal Council', 'death to Congress', and 'Why can't the United Kingdom just take us back?'

Elmofongo: The only hope I have is once everyone dies, the new generation of people will rectify these peoples errors.

Lone3wolf: Don't look to us, lad. We're heading your way on a runaway train, with increasing speed, downhill, and sharp bends all along the route.

We've been a 1-party state for the better part of at least 30 years, if not longer.
None of the "alternatives" are electable, and even if they were, UKIP for example, would happily jump on board with the rest of the scum in Westminster. Or become worse.

Fesin: Well, we've got 5-6 parties in our parliament and it's not really much better. Just shows how you can fuck up every political system (though the reasons are different, the effect is the same: two major parties that are essentially the same rule everything with an iron fist).

Darvond: So do I look to Scandinavia instead? Because as each day passes, that area becomes loads more tempting.

keeveek: Oh, it's pretty much the same in Poland. People would rebel only if govt. blocked porn.