Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoDemocracy in decline worldwide, new report sayswww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down10
arrow-up1154arrow-down1external-linkDemocracy in decline worldwide, new report sayswww.politico.euLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square57fedilink
minus-squareBipta@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·edit-28 months agoSo instead you choose authoritarianism: 20 people on a plan and one of them shoots the pilot, takes over, and crashes it. Everyone dies.
minus-squareCandelestine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·8 months agoThink 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.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoLove 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.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoYeah, 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.”
So instead you choose authoritarianism: 20 people on a plan and one of them shoots the pilot, takes over, and crashes it. Everyone dies.
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.
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.
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.”