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Which do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship? (self.asklemmy)
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[โ€“] [S] -5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Democracy means that power is held by the people. It doesn't mean that if you don't like it you can leave.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It's called "voting with your feet". Being free to leave is power. Means a hell of a lot more than up- and down-doots.

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  • [โ€“] [S] -3 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    In a democracy the vote determines policy.

    But this is obvious. Right?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You saw the whole paragraph where I talked about how lemmy is not a democracy, right? And literally cited this as one if the reasons why?

    Like I get that you're probably responding to multiple subthreads right now, but it only takes a few seconds to scroll up.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In a democracy, the community determines policy. Votes are orthogonal. If the community leaves when they disagree, by definition everyone that is remains agrees with the policy, making it a democratic policy. The friction to changing instance is very minimal, so it's a good indicator of people's opinions.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah but they aren't actually determining policy. Obviously.

    Why are you bullshitting?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The first sentence was a response to you asserting voting is essential to democracy, which is false. The rest of the comment was a response to you not accepting Nemo@slrpnk.net's argument.

    If you can't find an instance you agree with, and you have a mass of people who agree with you but are collectively too lazy to create a new instance, you would communicate your stance with words. Lemmy has a system for leaving text statements. You seem to be familiar. But there's no mechanism to force the instance operator to obey you.

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