• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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      Churchill was a racist idiot and that’s still a dumb quote.

      Democracy is a plane with 20 people on it. Nine vote not to crash it and eleven vote to fly it into a mountain, and that means everyone dies because democracy

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        But if we made you running everything it would be perfect.

        That’s the thing with anti-democracy sentiment the people who advocate for it always assume they, or someone who agrees with them on everything, is going to run things. No one imagines themselves in a slave society being a slave.

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        So instead you choose authoritarianism: 20 people on a plan and one of them shoots the pilot, takes over, and crashes it. Everyone dies.

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          Yeah, the problems with democracy are rarely solved by less democracy. It just turns into “Instead of many idiots voting to do something stupid, one idiot votes to do something stupid.”

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          Love how you think that not only are there only two options, but that democracy isn’t also authoritarian. It’s just mob rule instead of an individual.

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        It’s more like,

        • 2 hijackers vote to crash
        • 1 votes with the hijackers because they share a hometown
        • 2 vote no
        • another 2 vote strong no
        • the other 12 don’t participate because they don’t want to get too political (we have 40% voter turnout where I live)

        and I’ve been through enough elections to see how we are all heading to a crash, every time.

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        No, nine vote to crash it, seven vote to go left and four vote to go right.

        Crashing it is! Thanks, first past the post voting system.