Re: Wikipedia SOPA/PIPA
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:46 am
Never mess with Americans guns, alcohol, TV, phones, food, or Internet. That's when we get mad and might do something~seaN wrote:
Bread and Circuses" is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement. It was the basic Roman formula for the well-being of the population, and hence a political strategy unto itself. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion, distraction, and/or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace