Lucid, it depends on how big the revolt is. If the revolt is big enough and long enough that it is affecting more than half of the country directly, then it's a civil war and not a revolt, and anything less than a civil war is not a major disturbance of peace.

Xyktbpy is using a proxy, Julius, and you know democracies suffer from the tragedy of a commons. I'm all for a sophist king and a parliament

France looks pretty dead. I mean, look at the Dreyfus affair, and compare.

EDIT: And since we're speaking about different types of governments (I'm not sure how that happened), you're better off with a libertarian technocracy with neoliberal values in mind.

... And lots of guns.

Edited 1/11/2015 23:36:04

Republic all the way.

Edited 1/12/2015 01:59:32

I'll stick with my liberal gun

http://zompist.com/libertos.html
http://zompist.com/richtax.html
http://zompist.com/liberalism.html
etc.
There's more on his main page. He's the slightest bit insane, but he as at least a brain.[That rhymes]

Qwed: Libertarianism DOES work, especially if every country had open borders.

And a very good military.

EDIT: Wahoo! Your guns failed you, because of these quotes: "want a leaner, more efficient government, but don't dream of getting rid of it" and "accept that the FDIC is a pretty good idea".

That's me with my technocratic vision. :p

A small, efficient government under the administration of professionals that only plays a role in law, order, banking and military is the best one (most of the time. Corruption and fascism is the only problem I can think of.).

Unless you're in the bottom 5-10 %.

Edited 1/12/2015 03:14:53

FDIC-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
REQUIRES LOTS OF MONEY. NECESSITATES BIG GOV'T

Honestly, I don't see the point in insurance, it suffers from the middleman syndrome

Responding to the OP: The idea the west fights its wars against islam using pens is ridiculous. America didnt drop pens all over: gaza, iraq, afghanistan, yemen, pakistan. They didnt deploy pens to jerusalem. Thats what makes some muslims hate, this time they happened to take it out on someone who didnt deserve it. You could say "why didnt the gunmen attack some military target", most of them do, these guys didnt because i presume they didnt see a distinction between charlie bullying them and the american armed forces bullying them. Its easy for us to see charlie as not the establishment but from an outsiders point of view charlie arent standing up for muslims and theyre doing things specifically to disrespect muslims so its somewhat understandable that theyre seen as the enemy.

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But what isnt understandable is that these people live in the dark ages, they thrive off of killing others for "justice" All because their interpretation of the Quran tells them that they should.

United States is the one living in the dark ages by your meaning. Let's compare murder rates (per 100,000 people).

Kuwait: 0.4
Saudi Arabia: 0.8
United Kingdom: 1.0
Israel: 1.8
Jordan: 2.0
Egypt: 3.4
Iran: 3.9
United States: 4.7

I didn't include Iraq and Syria, for obvious reasons.

thats because there is a high population density here. Why dont you look at Japan, or Germany, or your precious baby China?

Japan has one of the lowest rates of murder in the world. Not sure about Germany, and China is probably bad.

the government of china beat the crap out of their people

China is lower. I'm too busy to bring statistics now, but US also happens to be the fourth biggest country. It's population density is not that high. And UK has a murder rate 4 times as low.

Look up the facts yourself.

"The US population density is not they high"
~Xypapy 2015


This will be remembered for years to come

Ok, back with facts.

Population Density (pop/km2)

Saudi Arabia: 15
US population density: 35
Iran: 45
Mexico: 60
Jordan: 75
Egypt: 90
China: 140
Kuwait: 200
Germany: 225
Japan: 335
Israel: 375

Murder Rates (per 100,000 people)

Japan: 0.3
Kuwait: 0.4
Germany: 0.8
Saudi Arabia: 0.8
China: 1.0
United Kingdom: 1.0
Israel: 1.8
Jordan: 2.0
Egypt: 3.4
Iran: 3.9
United States: 4.7
Mexico: 21.5

thats because there is a high population density here. Why dont you look at Japan, or Germany, or your precious baby China?

Just quit now...

Edited 1/13/2015 02:51:55

Weres the land of cartels? Mexico

Ok, I'll include that, just for you, though it's not relevant.