Mind Snacks S2-Ep5- WTF is Democracy ?

What up? I'm sitting on my porch waiting this flash flood warning I just got and. Oh, the top should be all wet and gross, which is great because now there's mosquitoes. You got to love that. Wait. Hey, maize, if you want to send it to me through DM, I can throw it in Adobe and create like a link to it. I mean, you should do both post the image file. Yeah, file files you can send via DM. You just can't post files. Well, girl, listen, come in right up. I think post your image first, though, right? And then so people have a more detailed version. Definitely have a link to the documents. Would you look trying to do this in the next? Not much. You're not going to do it all at the same time. I'm going to just literally like try to be complicated there. Okay. Ah, women in technology, right? We're so silly. It's so funny. What's the button thingy? Yeah, what's this button do? Press them all. Press all those damn buttons. You're all so intelligent and you can't buy this out yet. Listen, it's not a pause. Okay. Um, I bet you do you do you pub look? I can create the PDF. I can make it look phenomenal. Okay, but X is funky with how you can post up. I just did it. I just sent it to her to this authentic. So she's going to make a link for you. I'm still post the PDFs while Mr. Tarty for the party is getting his stuff. Listen, I had to come correct. Let me tell you because Rance is extremely like very, you know, let's just say Ph.D. level when it comes to the political stuff. And I'm like still in maybe middle school, right? Like I'm out of elementary, right? I've graduated from elementary. But still, I think a lot of people, I'm still shocked about the things I thought I was going to do. I think I was supposed to think the way that I was thinking because obviously in that way, it makes me surrender my power, right? Like I didn't, I didn't realize until a couple of years ago, how what an alienable rights were and what the Constitution was actually protecting. It wasn't until we went through and read the Constitution, Bill of Rights and all that stuff. So I had to familiarize myself with that again now because in school, what do you do? You just look at the things that I'm going to do. Again, now because in school, what do you do? You just like cram and you take tests and you get aes and you move on. Like who gives a shit, right? But we should give a shit because it has everything to do with our quality of life in the state of the world. Like many people, I don't think are aware of that. They don't really realize the impact of that. So anyway, as I continue to re-familiarize myself with the very important things that we should know about. Our political rights, our environment, the siops, the cognitive warfare that's going along with it, which by the way, I'm super stoked because Destiny is going to cover the continuity of government anomalies that are happening right now. All of these things that point to there being some sort of like post collapse. Well, resilience through a collapse and post collapse infrastructure. And not most of us probably don't know that that does not include you. She's been tracking this for a long time. She's going to share all that information with us and it's all in the same vein. So, you know, we did her cognitive warfare dashboard last night. We did it on livestream and we were going through it and answering. It teaches you, basically, what cognitive warfare is. And we went through just the terms, just understanding what all the different terms are. We did dip down to a B minus, but we made it back up to an A. Okay. Everybody was playing along in the chat. It was so much fun. We're going to do this weekly. We're going to pick up from where we left off. And that was just the white. What did you call the beginner? The novice class. Yeah, there's three grades of it. So we did the novice one. And I think we have like a C plus. So we were not, we were not top of the class. We were not valid. We got back up to minus. So we made it back up. It took away. It took away. I was nervous. I was like checking the score every single one of them did go up. Well, I was like, like me, Rance and does would have different answers. And then like we would, I would be like it's B. And she's like it's C. And he's like it's A. And then it'd be D. And we're like, oh, okay. We're all fucking wrong. But eventually, but see, that's what's so helpful. Because when we begin to kind of have a common understanding about what things are. And we were able to identify things that are happening right now within this sphere. Okay. That is included in her lesson plans. Like it's so fucking amazing. Like I, I, I just, I can't rave enough without like probably getting on your nerves destiny. Because I'm not trying to have the golden retriever energy. But like I love her like, like I don't even think you guys understand. I don't mind it for my girlfriend. It's men. I don't like that shit from it. It's just it comes off really. It comes off girly. Like girls are like, yeah, girlfriend. Like you should see, if I see any bitch in real life. Like it's the black in me. Black people in here will understand. There's no better complimenters on earth. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. That I better complimenters on earth. Then women of color. There is no better complimenter. The second I see any of my girlfriends. Like, Oh my god. Stop the press. Put away the camera. Snow pop bronzy. No popular. I'll see you next. Like I do the most for when I see people like, because it's my girlfriend. But like, if I'm guy, did I to be? Well, I would think your game. I would think you're gay more than likely, because you shouldn't be that excited about my outfit and stuff. I'm gone, I'm sorry. You shouldn't be. And if you're like, Oh my god felt a gold smart. I had to go back in and change. I need to go back and change because I can't go out looking like me next to you Queen Queen Cleopatra over here Like you know, I do the most well that's unless you're attracted to him But that's a different story though. No, I don't even want to go on No, you're right like that. That's Yeah, that's too much. What do you say? So you don't want your man to compliment you? I'm sorry. We're gonna go for the topic as soon as brands There's a different like him for this. If you like it, I could do it. It should be speechless actually. That's what he should be That's okay. I could do it It reminds me of that scene and legally on don't stop your little five whatever or something Last season's promise you can't meet me Poor boy wearing a song and I asked my fuckers Supposed to be taking screenshots and posting it so my bad Let me be honest doesn't shop in five minutes. I'm gonna call Alaska National Guard Because he's never late so is this bizarre. He's never late. I feel like there's maybe got eaten by moose Maybe he saw my notes and was like oh shit She didn't really went out did herself. There's normally he's sending me these notes, you know what I mean like and I'm like okay So this time I was like, you know what? I'm a match that energy and I'm gonna come through and I used this Research hub thing which is super dope. I still haven't used it. Don't eat. I will I just haven't Well listen, I'm I was shocked because I uploaded like my six pages of damn notes and all the stuff that I got it from everywhere And then I just went poof and spit this shit out. I was like damn. She's fire Okay, so this is I think the screenshots would probably be about five posts. So I'll just wait for For this authentic to put her to put the link in there to make it easier for you guys I'm okay. Well, I guess we can go ahead and get started. Thanks for coming guys. Welcome to mine snacks episode five repos the space This one's an important one. We're talking about democracy What is this thing that we call democracy? And I'm pretty sure you guys have You know probably seen this on bumper stickers like democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting On what's for dinner? I mean there's like all types of different things like oh this is not a democracy We are a constitutional republic You know I think that even when you talk about democracy the things that people say I actually did put together a compilation Of clips, but I didn't get a chance to finish it But there's just different people saying different things about it Even in our everyday news that can really leave people pretty confused like what the hell is That and and and what does it mean? Well, we're gonna go to the very like original definition demos Means people and Kratos means power or rule so you put that together and democracy Literally means the rule of the people so it's pretty simple, right? but it Falls apart Pretty quickly because the definition Itself will open three questions And it's which people get to rule through what institutions do they actually do the ruling and how do we check whether people are really governing or whether it's a much smaller group And the power structure is not as it is Supposed to be perceived by you. So When we talk about direct democracy, this is back in Athens, right? Ancient Athens That's where citizens physically like gathered together and they did the voting on the laws themselves There was no representatives in between so no middleman no Congress and well no Yeah, there was not in the way that we this is ancient Athens, right? But the whole idea of the people being in charge came from that and so the The democracy where the majority chooses to separate and set apart Expel or injure its minority is not a functioning democracy So what do they do they ended up coming up with this whole representative Democracy and by the way this authentic. I don't know. Maybe she sent it to me. Oh, I want you guys to be able to have something to follow along with So give me a second I just want everyone to know I'm doing stupid shit at the current moment Like what? Just about I'm finishing it up so it should be ready here. No, I got to know I got oh, thank you love I appreciate I got to know the games of the Britney Spears song song guitar and you wouldn't believe of all the singers You think would have easy songs. It's not her. It's not her. They're fucking difficult. It's dumb Well, which song Sometimes you're gonna sing that for us when we leave Yeah, although I do a pretty killer Britney Spears impersonation that I don't do for people but like If one day I get drunk a million years like to say I do right if I do catch me when I'm drunk and then I have to do it and then I might do it Okay, well we'll continue to practice All right, so Okay, so everything that Basically follows in the document that we're gonna put up Attempts to answer those questions right so the history again Ancient Athens in first century AD Greek power fades early democratic practice recedes with it now 1215 the year 1215 the Magna Carta We actually did read this in the spaces where I was reading the Constitution. We did the Magna Carta the Declaration of Independence and Then the Constitution whatever but it establishes that even the king of England must obey the law It was kind of an early check on absolute rulers and then in the 1700s between the 1700s and 1800s It was the rise of the representative government Where citizens elect lawmakers rather than voting directly on every law and so today most democracies are indirect which is the representative typically dividing power across legislative executive and judicial branches And the purpose of that is to have the checks and balances So that link is in your inbox maze. Oh You're the shite I turned I turned it into a like a website so people can just go to the link shoot actually like Yeah, you have to teach me to do that. Well, okay, so you didn't have See whenever I do that in court it only lets me save it on my desktop, but anyway. Thank you so much I appreciate you. I appreciate it It was I don't know if you're using it in chat or coworker, but coworker to it. Oh, I do and I never used the coworker I didn't know what it was cool. Okay, boom. Here it is y'all It is in the nest So you can refer to that if you wish to follow along Okay, so now the minority problem this is basically majority obviously rules right like so the more I guess the most votes is who typically wins now the majority rule creates its own danger where they can dominate everyone else Now today's issue which is kind of interesting is that we have the inverse problem, right where it's the minority And now we find ourselves in a pickle because what is supposed to protect the minority rule back in the day is now Protecting the minorities isn't that crazy? Okay, but the so democracy where majority chooses to separate set apart Expeller injures minority is not functioning democracy so the tension between majority power and minority protection It occurred throughout the rest, you know