Post Ao7BsxSfE3oB2EGYIy by gentoobro@shitpost.cloud
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(DIR) Post #Ao6Ak0lvFm4raHU4rw by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-11-16T11:16:00Z
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It feels like some folks think democracy amounts to doing whatever the majority of those who voted in an election want. That’s not democracy. That’s tyranny of the majority.If your society votes to start eating babies, you don’t start eating babies. You protect your babies with your life and you fight tooth and nail until you rid your society of baby eaters so you don’t end up as a nation of cannibals.
(DIR) Post #Ao6B09fTwghboBAZIu by Alarod@mstdn.social
2024-11-16T11:18:53Z
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@aral Democracy is determined by the will of the majority. It only becomes tyranny when the majority of people choose fascism. Oh, like this time!
(DIR) Post #Ao6BCVNv1rnUdWqMHA by Sh41@androiddev.social
2024-11-16T11:20:16Z
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@aral democracy has always been the tyranny of the majority, that's why it never convinced me as a system.
(DIR) Post #Ao6HAHRqTRAMYh0DK4 by BenAveling@mastodon.world
2024-11-16T12:27:55Z
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@aral counterpoint: this is exactly the anti-choice position. A sane democracy builds in controls, but those controls have to be broad enough that they get majority support, a majority of ppl have to agree that they are getting most of what they want. Otherwise your solution for ‘the tyranny of the majority’ is a ‘tyranny of the minority’. In an odd way, that’s what kind of what representative democratic is. We don’t choose on issues, we choose the ppl we trust to decide.
(DIR) Post #Ao6TYCumBAvmtli5yq by enthusiast101@fosstodon.org
2024-11-16T14:46:38Z
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@aral I mean democracy is "tyranny of the majority", the issue is that for a democracy to be actually beneficial, everyone needs to be properly educated. They need to know what a 20% tariff will actually do to the economy.Another issue with the US democracy is that different parts of our population despise each other. So resources are spent just screwing with different parts of the population, resulting in a bad outcome for everyone. Currently, there is no "unified voice" of the people.
(DIR) Post #Ao6YtYep2F3SBUFRKq by spamned@mastodon.social
2024-11-16T15:46:35Z
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@aral too late
(DIR) Post #Ao6bn8QFxl20wX41Q0 by OphanimDev@mastodon.social
2024-11-16T16:18:50Z
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@aral If the majority of your country votes to ban the use of lead connection pipes ; don't rip out your plumbing. Start buying all the lead pipes you can and fight to keep them until you rid society of lead-haters and don't end up with a nation of lead-poisoning haters.
(DIR) Post #Ao6fUS0fJUeE0SRLU0 by crazyeddie@mastodon.social
2024-11-16T17:00:25Z
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@aral I don't know. At this point we may as well eat our children. Keep them from having to and we really are anyway... Let's not just dismiss what could be a real answer to our problems.
(DIR) Post #Ao6lWmZASI2A474bL6 by cosvak@mastodon.world
2024-11-16T18:08:04Z
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@aral THIS!
(DIR) Post #Ao7AgPkEepYJ2GwK00 by stoner713@poa.st
2024-11-16T22:50:31.417357Z
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@aral baby eaters baby fuckers, the same thing really
(DIR) Post #Ao7BWZQXu5OA7ibGIi by sapphire@shortstacksran.ch
2024-11-16T22:59:56.394556Z
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@aral >If your society votes to start eating babies, you don’t start eating babies. You protect your babies with your life and you fight tooth and nail until you rid your society of baby eaters so you don’t end up as a nation of cannibals.what do you do if a significant portion of your population want to murder unborn babies?
(DIR) Post #Ao7BsxSfE3oB2EGYIy by gentoobro@shitpost.cloud
2024-11-16T23:03:58.750237Z
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Focus on ending the Fed while your enemies Naturally Unselect themselves, that's what you do.
(DIR) Post #Ao7BzTHHqUl1Rw3Af2 by sapphire@shortstacksran.ch
2024-11-16T23:05:09.611956Z
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@gentoobro @aral sorry, Americans in America only, I don't need coward sexpat opinions
(DIR) Post #Ao7C7bmw5VXeA2jYxs by theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe
2024-11-16T23:06:35.861190Z
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@aral "but its okay when we do it" :305:
(DIR) Post #Ao7wzIQasgQje2p196 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-11-17T07:51:11Z
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@sapphire 1. They’re not unborn babies, they’re fetuses2. You don’t do anything because the decision of whether or not to abort a fetus belongs to the person whose body the fetus is in3. You may fuck off now with your “your body, my choice” crap.
(DIR) Post #Ao7x4uvTApu4UZwaaO by sapphire@shortstacksran.ch
2024-11-17T07:52:46.700582Z
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@aral My sperm, my choice.