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lainy lain@lain.com
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk

veritasium explains and proves arrow's impossibility theorem, but then at the end has to say that democracy is still the best because churchill said so

ロミンありん romin@shitposter.world
@lain churchill also said that a particular austrian painter was the best too

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@lain > video about democracy
> doesn't talk about democracy
Classic

p p@raru.re

IMO if 50% of a country doesn't vote, or care to, is it even a democracy?
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Hyolobrika (left) Hyolobrika
@lain He basically said "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good", which is valid

Hyolobrika (left) Hyolobrika
@romin @lain Did he?
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Hyolobrika (left) Hyolobrika
@p @lain It's a democracy for the people who care

p p@raru.re

not a democracy then, by definition
@Hyolobrika @lain

jeff jeff@mk.magicka.org

@p@raru.re @Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net @lain@lain.com never has been

Hyolobrika (left) Hyolobrika
@p @lain Personally I think freedom > voting. You shouldn't be able to vote against the civil liberties of your neighbour.

p p@raru.re

Switzerland I think has been close
the prerequisite for a democracy which is easily glossed over, an educated and informed populace
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lainy lain@lain.com
@Hyolobrika i think that a video showing the not widely known proof of the impossibility of ranked choice voting should end on platitudes. It should at least give one pause to think.

Hyolobrika (left) Hyolobrika
@p @lain I don't really care though. Why should people who don't want to have a say, have a say?

p p@raru.re

that is a good default, I'm not really a fan of things like "eminent domain" but you can probably imagine when things like that are required
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p p@raru.re

You're making a lot of assumptions there, like "they don't want to", you really have no idea.
They do not have to consent. It's that simple.
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ロミンありん romin@shitposter.world
@Hyolobrika @lain not at painting for sure

p p@raru.re

no consent, means no mandate, means no one has authority.
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Hyolobrika (left) Hyolobrika
@p @lain That line of thinking never made much sense to me. If someone has power over you, it makes practical sense to have whatever power you can over them, for harm reduction.

Hyolobrika (left) Hyolobrika
@romin @lain source?

ロミンありん romin@shitposter.world
@Hyolobrika @lain it was revealed to me in a dream

g r e y grey@poa.st
@p @lain it depends if the Jews are in power or not. if they are, it's Democracy. if they aren't, it's anti-Democratic.