Post ATPygWg5n4quSsRbgu by YourNeighbor57@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #ASY2qIJn8GgtkbwV4C by YourNeighbor57@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-10T20:19:03Z
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NYTimes: There Is No Dignity in This Kind of America There Is No Dignity in This Kind of America https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/opinion/trump-desantis-transgender-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=KusC8rGJ-XqUwNOhtcbYGpfByTostY9rdrX-Xl5jOSVvAIdXvjVDQIehkTfnh1rh5rX-Td4Nsn8duKJhpGw5RkzwIkppn6dLpQiDVG5A0D1Kx3ChntLwR3ByFgxetokPGGOzOe08wzBZPEXT9mv6lP5XhqmTzL5JirOBYlnWYqpZ-s1sum8NZtX1122_6X9Z8gJurz1SrTVyfiMPqn1JDmKfZtS7EfAkJNeHmeTlRp7J3yt-tlmn_x-0YL8FN8Ni3jhfxiyFI7zqu8cSsK0tJ9_UoLQPwueNXUcy_8hY9ss0iUhcsWMwKWC-AJUXZmPSI9xi901AegR4iPXyJu0z2aOFKUIzfUGoh84iGift article. "Democracy, remember, is not just a set of rules and institutions, but a way of life. In the democratic ideal, we meet one another in the public sphere as political and social equals, imbued with dignity and entitled to the same rights and privileges."#UnitedAgainstHate #LGBTQ #transgender #BlackMastodon
(DIR) Post #ASY4dImSImmdKQHZCq by EvilSandmich@poa.st
2023-02-10T21:13:42.682686Z
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@YourNeighbor57 I wouldn't be upset if child grooming trannies (the only kind) were to be fed into chipper shredders; should we "meet one another in the public sphere as political and social equals" to discuss?
(DIR) Post #ASY7aMrWy8oYyvwstM by HSTG@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-10T21:46:47Z
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@YourNeighbor57 You should look up the definition of democracy someday. Pandering to single digit percentages of people is NOT how it's done.
(DIR) Post #ATNiIr50IZGTCtrqNM by elliswyatt@social.freetalklive.com
2023-03-07T19:08:28Z
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@YourNeighbor57 Democracy, by definition is the subjugation of the minority to the whims of the majority. It does not seek consent of those it imposes on. It can best be characterized by the spiteful vindictive war between two groups of people too inured in their desire to harm each other to realize that they'd best not associating at all.
(DIR) Post #ATPQcQM9xGi3G7zeCm by YourNeighbor57@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-03-08T14:59:44Z
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@elliswyatt “A democracy,” ... “is a polity that prizes human dignity,” Bromell writes. “It comes into existence when a group of persons agrees to acknowledge each other’s dignity, both informally, through mutually respectful comportment, and formally, through the establishment of political rights.” All of our freedoms, in Bromell’s account of Douglass, “are means toward the end of maintaining a political community in which all persons collaboratively produce their dignity.”
(DIR) Post #ATPlO2s0ZsxlOusKJ6 by elliswyatt@social.freetalklive.com
2023-03-08T18:52:27Z
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@YourNeighbor57 How do you square that circle with defensive voting, 50% voter turn outs, people who arent allowed to vote etc?
(DIR) Post #ATPrrN09PNvPxa3AUC by elliswyatt@social.freetalklive.com
2023-03-08T20:04:59Z
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@YourNeighbor57 How do you square that circle with defensive voting, 50% voter turn outs, people who arent allowed to vote etc?
(DIR) Post #ATPygWg5n4quSsRbgu by YourNeighbor57@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-03-08T21:21:26Z
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@elliswyatt A true egalitarian multiracial pluralistic democracy is still an ideal. We can continue to build it or we can let it be destroyed by those who prefer authoritarian hierarchy.
(DIR) Post #ATQ054F0krZbSn2kT2 by elliswyatt@social.freetalklive.com
2023-03-08T21:37:06Z
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@YourNeighbor57 YOU want an authoritarian hierarchy, what did you think happens when you elect people to impose your views on others?