MichaelGR comments on Rationality Quotes November 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelGR 30 November 2009 12:21:53AM 16 points [-]

Politicians compete to bribe voters with their own money.

--Adapted from something in The Economist (sorry, they don't have bylines)

Comment author: SilasBarta 30 November 2009 03:26:34AM *  5 points [-]

Can't find the link to this Dilbert strip, but I saved it a while ago to my computer.

Dogbert is running for office:

Dogbert: Vote for me or the terrorists will use your skulls for salad bowls.
Dogbert: I promise to take money from the people who don't vote for me and give it to the people that do.
Dogbert: Pollution has vitamins!
Person in audience: I like how he makes me feel.

ETA: Uploaded it here. Now accepting pledges for my copyright infringement legal defense fund.

Comment author: wnoise 01 December 2009 01:12:55PM 1 point [-]

All of the strips can be found online at http://www.dilbert.com/strips/

Comment author: RobinZ 01 December 2009 03:36:40PM 2 points [-]

And, tracing back from the filename, the strip in question.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 30 November 2009 01:43:26AM 14 points [-]

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

-H. L. Mencken

Comment author: Nominull 30 November 2009 03:21:21AM 4 points [-]

What's interesting from a rationalist point of view is the surprising extent to which this is not actually the case.

Comment author: Technologos 30 November 2009 03:27:11AM 0 points [-]

Anymore, at least, relative to the power of the state.