[ Voting is at least a...little familiar. Vaguely. The kind of thing that Topside did to make themselves seem "reasonable", whereas Silco made and controlled a city based on how much prestige and power he had. Voting is the kind of thing he thinks of as...
Well. For people who had the time. The inclination. Who wanted to look magnanimous as they also did what they wanted through careful manipulation of power and control. Mind, he didn't mind that part. Just that they pretended to hold the high road while they did it.
Unsurprisingly, Silco had Opinions about such things, as evidenced by the flash of a smile, tight and thin, before it died on his lips. ]
How lucky for them, to have such available resources, and a populace so...invested in little things like that. [ He's just bitchy. ]
People always want, though I've always thought there were better things to focus on than roads. I think our... city planners here agree. Don't your...voting public have anything better to do?
[ This Extreme Democracy. He's still having trouble grasping it, but then again. He's never seen a smartphone before either. ]
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Well. For people who had the time. The inclination. Who wanted to look magnanimous as they also did what they wanted through careful manipulation of power and control. Mind, he didn't mind that part. Just that they pretended to hold the high road while they did it.
Unsurprisingly, Silco had Opinions about such things, as evidenced by the flash of a smile, tight and thin, before it died on his lips. ]
How lucky for them, to have such available resources, and a populace so...invested in little things like that. [ He's just bitchy. ]
People always want, though I've always thought there were better things to focus on than roads. I think our... city planners here agree. Don't your...voting public have anything better to do?
[ This Extreme Democracy. He's still having trouble grasping it, but then again. He's never seen a smartphone before either. ]