• 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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      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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        Think bigger. Fly the plane in circles, and demand the people give you whatever you want to occasionally land it and bring some supplies onboard.

        Just don’t die of old age.

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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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          That’s… precisely why the original quote said “democracy is the worst form of government”. It has fundamental flaws. But it’s still the better than everything else.

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      Churchill’s point is that stupid things can still happen in democracies, but no one has come up with a better alternative. What would you suggest as the better alternative? If you don’t have one, then you just helped prove Churchill’s point!

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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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      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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      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.