Garry Kasparov: Is Russian Democracy an Oxymoron?

[Migue261]

bigthink should make a television program, and Mark Zuckerberg should pay for it ^^

[dragnet53]

Garry Kasparov is a zionist Jew and will work with his fellow Jews to destroy a nation if they don't get what they want.

[conoba]

Careful garry, a certain someone might put a bit of polonium in your tea.

I did not know chess players have such big balls.

[vinnievinvin99]

@conoba maybe his stuttering is a sign of nerves. cos he certainly stutters alot >_>

[VellianoRosso]

US is one to talk. There politics are run by corporations LEGAL FASCISM!!!

[mp3talon]

chess

[gamerunknown]

GDP is a less useful tool for analysing the effect of politics on the people (the basis of democracy is meant to be the people rather than the aristocracy, right?) than average lifespan, which receded in Russia by about 8 years since the collapse of Communism.

[gamerunknown]

All good, but his party advocates the first past the post system which doesn't strike me as very democratic. 

[xMaXiMuSx]

kasparov talking about democracy is laughable.. He is just mad Putin kicked out Berezovsky and Khorodovsky out of political influence and replaced the fool Yeltsin.

[BeondaPale]

Putin admires and openly models himself after Stalin - and is MORE popular for it in Russia.

[RaniaIsAwesome]

I only believe in democracy if it's democracy of all species on planet earth.

I was watching a documentary yesterday, and it was trying to be eco-friendly. But they showed a woman at one point complaining about aggressive "gangs" attacking her.

It turns out, the gangs were monkeys, and she was trying to hit them with sticks to keep them off "her" fruit stall. But how should she say it is HER stall and her property? Why is it not the monkeys just as much? Why can the monkeys not own property?

[SubconsciousGatherer]

"Fox News" is an oxymoron.

[supertroll653]

@SubconsciousGatherer don't you mean cnn news

[SubconsciousGatherer]

@supertroll653 No, I most certainly mean FOX. They are as "fair and balanced" as a fat man alone on a teeter totter.

[supertroll653]

@SubconsciousGatherer I was clearly refering too CNN'S lack of news ps they're as fair as slavery

[OpiatedBliss]

in soviet russia, democracy oxymorons you!

[LazarusCato]

Most nations are oligarchies - some more overt than others is all.

Everyones thinking short-term profits and positioning themselves for the next election.

[PurpleGhost]

@LazarusCato - I couldn't agree more. *thumbs up*

[LazarusCato]

Democracy on a national level is overrated IMO, it just descends in2 farce - tho there shud b sum way of the populous removing bad leaders. Democracy on a local level is much more important - the issues dealt with on a federal level shud be approached thru sumting mor akin 2 the scientific method - 2 vote on a national level, it is my opinion that one shud have 2 pass a test showing a min. level of understanding of relevant issues. That brings with it problems, but it wud clean things up some.

[AgrivatedKillah]

@LazarusCato Agreed.

People should have to past a mental exam, and a political[or history] class to vote.

[gamerunknown]

@LazarusCato

This is a terrible idea. As if one test could encompass the entire political spectrum of opinions? Who would even write such a test? In the past, such tests have been used to deny black people the right to vote by proxy, because if they were permitted to attend education it was inferior to the education enjoyed by the whites - "Jim Crow" laws. When politicians say that their political theory is inerrant (that of Gobineau or Marx, for example)... the results are apparent.