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This is sure to offend just about every one:

A Democracy:  Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
A Republic:  The flock gets to vote for which wolves vote on dinner.
A Constitutional Republic: Voting on dinner is expressly forbidden, and the sheep are armed.


FEUDALISM You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.

FASCISM You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

PURE ANARCHY You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

LIBERTARIAN: ANARCHO-CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

Date: 2004-07-16 05:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] halfamo.livejournal.com
Surrealism? hahaha

How about Zimbabwean democracy: You have two cows. The government shoots them as they are red inside and a symbol of the opposition party.

Can I friend you? you make an interesting read...



Date: 2004-07-16 06:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ambitious-wench.livejournal.com
Sure! May I ask how you found me? Glad you liked it.

Edie

Date: 2004-07-16 06:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] halfamo.livejournal.com
Well, I was just doing a random browse through the latests posts, and I happened across yours...

Date: 2004-07-16 05:46 am (UTC)

Date: 2004-07-16 05:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] texas-tiger.livejournal.com
Thanks, I needed that laugh. *grin*

Date: 2004-07-16 08:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] djfiggy.livejournal.com
I remember this one! It's been so long. It's still funny now.

Date: 2004-07-16 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malada.livejournal.com
A Constitutional Republic: Voting on dinner is expressly forbidden, and the sheep are armed.

Hooray for armed sheep!

-m

More cows!

Date: 2004-07-16 11:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deor.livejournal.com
Ghod, this takes me back. I have a file of these from... 5 years ago. Some of them are a bit different though. Here're some samples:

PURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

BUREAUCRATIC CAPITALISM
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral. Since you can't borrow money, you can't establish a good credit rating to allow you borrow money. You end up flipping burgers for someone else.

SOVIET COMMUNISM
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.

PERESTROIKA
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate".

BRITISH DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.

SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.

BUREAUCRACY
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows..

ANARCHY
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows.

TOTALITARIANISM
You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

COUNTER CULTURE
Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk.


Date: 2004-07-16 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foxiecrumz.livejournal.com
Cambodian communism
is my favorite. :)

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