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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 16 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You mean democracy in the US, not all over the world.

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    If you have a functioning example of democracy I have a bridge to sell you.

    There's a lot of worse options out there but western democracy on the whole doesn't really represent the "demos" in any real sense - that's both good and bad of course, but it's also not democracy.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Greek democracy was chosen at random through a lottery. It was extremely successful.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzbJacGGt1o&t=1270s

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How often did slaves win the lottery?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago

    I dont understand your point. Slavery can be bad while a lottery based democracy can be good. There not related other than having the ability to exist at the same time? Slavery also existed in many voting based representative democracies like the Roman empire and American deomocratic republic.

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