Karl Marx can fuck off and the dude that invented capitalism what his name? Whatever he can fuck off to. Yes my rebellious friends i have finally developed my own political system. I call it Pimpism. Well actually i call it e-democracy but please don't confuse it for i-democracy which is what the evil capitalist's will call it once they get control of it.

What is e-democracy?

Its funny you should ask. It all started when i was "researching" Mu Zimei the brave (and hot) young Chinese blogger who defied Chinese internet censors and posted intimate details about her sex life online. Porno had done what the tank man couldn't... defy the communist party.

So.. um.. whats e-democracy?

Well we have the government right? And we have all these Politicians who are gay and on a side note corrupt as shit. Whats worse is we have the gradual decrease of our freedoms. And just like the brave (and did i mention hot?) Mu Zimei wrestled power away from the Evil Chinese authoritarians via use of the internet so we the people can take back the power via use of the internet.

But how?

By implementing e-democracy

What the fuck is e-democracy?

Oh, e-democracy is a political system whereby everybody votes on everything. Previously this has been impossible due to logistical problems pre-internet people would have faced. Now we can use the internet to abolish the government for good.

We will still have a government only on a much smaller scale. Just say a government wants to pass a law:The evil corrupt government can pass the law evilly in their evil government lair without the people batting an eyelid. Under e-democracy the government will be unable to do this. You see under e-democracy the government will have to upload the bill onto the internet and the people vote. We vote on everything. Every fucking thing gets uploaded onto a voting website and the majority decide. No more bullshit, we decide everything.

How is this stupid unrealistic idea supposed to work?

Lets use the "anti-terror" laws as an example. (Please note i live in Australia wtf is a president?) Now we should all know by now that anti terror laws were designed to give the governments legal power to spy on their own citizens rather than anything to do with terrorism. The governments were able to introduce these laws and never ever did they ask the people who were going to be affected by these laws if it was ok.

Now fast forward to the future and e-democracy. So the government wants to introduce anti terror laws. Guess what fuckers? You have to upload that shit onto http://www.vote.com.au and every citizen gets to vote yes or no. In fact you have to upload every law you want to pass and let the people vote if they want it or not.

Heres how it works in a nutshell:

- Elections are held online (nobody wants to waste their sunday afternoon hanging out at a voting booth)
- Once the government is voted in anything they want to change or any new bills they want to pass have to be presented to the people who will also vote if they want it.
- Voting is not compulsory as most of the shit is boring and no one will give a shit anyway.
- It will create allot more interest in politics. Something which we lack today. No more sitting around watching Australian idol while the government pisses all over us.
- The government will have to be allot more transparent in what they are doing. If they want people to vote for their shit they better tell us why.
- We dont need all these useless politicians. I don't even know what half these fuckers jobs are. We say yay or nay. We don't need to pay some fat fuck 200 grand a year to do it for us.
- We can use tax file numbers as log ins so theirs no cheating.
- Its an awesome idea as it will truly be a system where people power is king.

Lets face it. Apart from a few nerd freaks most people don't even know how the government works. As u can see i sure as hell don't. But most people do know how the internet works. And the best way to make lazy bastards wake up is to make political change a mouse click away.

E-DEMOCRACY = THE GOVERNMENT DOES WHAT WE TELL IT TO DO (not the other way around)

Is it a perfect system? Unfortunately not. But its a step in the right direction. Mu Zimei (who is really hot) has showed us that the battleground has been taken off the streets and onto the world wide web where it can be won. By using the internet we can restore the balance of power into the hands of the people where it belongs.

Am i genius?

The answer is obviously yes. But i couldn't have done it without the inspiration of Mu Zimei (who is so like hot!)

Mu Zimei, your spirit will be in my heart, and in other places of my anatomy, and the the candle light temple i have constructed in my garage in your honor equipped with no less that 33974 photos of you i sourced off the internet.





p.s. i can see part of your ass!!

LOL WHAT R U GONNA DO ABUOT E-TERRORISM???????

But seriously.
Who is going to enforce these laws that will be passed?

i think there's a lot of potential in that idea, but remember that not everyone has constant acess to the internet. people who are too poor to afford a computer would get screwed, and even if the government provided designated digital voting stations, the sheer number of bills on the ballot would give the people who actually own computers an advantage because they would be able to vote at any given time, without having to leave their home (which hardworking people may not have time to do). computers would have to be mass-distributed and to do that, they would need to become cheaper.
which brings up another disturbing question: what about the companies that run the internet? if they're big enough, they can hire the best hackers, buy the best software, and get the government's protection if they try to screw with election results. there would need to be some sort of publically owned "election internet" that no corporation would control, and a whole public "internet defense force" to prevent rigging votes.
overall i think it could be a good idea, but some more technological and political progess needs to be made first.

Seems like a pretty cool idea. It's this sort of "forcing" the government that has been speculated about lots of times before, but with the help of the Internet, this can probably be the best way to force the government.

Pimp, on top of making me laugh, that is a great idea.

Quote:people who are too poor to afford a computer would get screwed, and even if the government provided designated digital voting stations, the sheer number of bills on the ballot would give the people who actually own computers an advantage because they would be able to vote at any given time, without having to leave their home (which hardworking people may not have time to do). computers would have to be mass-distributed and to do that, they would need to become cheaper.

Absolutely true... but they are getting cheaper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
(I am sooo drooling over one of those... the newer 9inch touchscreen model, anyway)
Some people could travel around poor areas with a bunch of those and let people log in and vote, or do research and stuff. Hell, that sounds like a pretty fun job, even.

As for the hacking, if the ISPs are in on it, they probably won't even need hackers, unless they want to use them as an excuse if they get caught. But yeah. With so many different ISPs and WiFi and things, not ALL votes will be hackable, and some kind of international/neutral group of people can analyze the statistics for each ISP, and order an investigation if there's an obvious difference in the votes between different ISPs. Or something.

Also, having the majority of people vote on things might not work too well because the majority of people are still pretty gullible and likely to believe whatever the government says about each policy instead of doing any real research on it. But it'd still be a helluva lot better than what we have now.

That is actually a really interesting idea, besides a few kinks that have been pointed out, and probably a few more, that could work pretty good. I would definitely be in favor of something like this. Beats the system we have now by a long shot.

The government has already spliced into the cables that connect the Internet backbone...
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries...6/04/70619

Using a server on the backbone to change the data packets instead of forward them is very possible. ...They don't even need the ISP's, but that makes it easier for them.

Still, e-voting might be possible someday. I think it would need an good honest government that has a tyrannical iron fist on who controls the backbone. (Almost impossible) but then again I might be completely wrong....

i'm not sure if the internet is the best means for doing this, but i do agree that direct democracy definitely deserves another chance in the age of instant electronic communication, and don't have to squeeze the whole city into the local zeus temple and do a show of hands.

It needs a bit of refining, but it will probably work. Not that there is much of a chance of it actually happening.

wow......just wow....