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[–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do some of the questions asked in this sub make it sound like the OP's first day as a human being?

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Homie had his shit removed and now its everyone's problem.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Democracy, in the hands of the proletariat, not the bourgeoisie. The government should oppress the capitalist class and uplift the proletariat, political power should be stripped from capitalists and lay with the proletariat instead. This is the "dictatorship of the proletariat" over the bourgeoisie.

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    I love them all equally Care-Comrade

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Democracy, like mostly anyone. But it depends on anyone's conception, here.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Experience shows democracies work better in just about every way. Mainly, there's questions about how stable they can be over the long term.

    I've known people who liked the idea of a dictatorship, but they've all had funny ideas about how they internally work. Palace intrigue and corruption are inevitable and huge, it's never just one potentially-wise individual calling the shots.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Democracy, obviously. No it doesn't change if I'm the dictator.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Democracty, if people do bad choices it's the people problem not democracy . If the leader of the dictatorship is bad nothing can be done

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Who would realistically say dictator? Putin?

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Dictatorship by a wide margin. Why should the parliament squabble over a law for months, possibly years, when under a dictatorship said law could be enacted instantly? Also with democracy every politician just thinks about getting elected, not the actual long-term needs of the country.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people. If a dictator just gets to decide what the law is, they'll likely be self-serving to the dictator, or even outright harmful to entire categories of people.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do I get to be the dictator?

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn't wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I'm the dictator.

    IRL? Democracy. It sucks, but it's better than everything else. I do, however, wish there were better laws forcing media to be locally owned, and bound to be truthful. And some way to keep late stage capitalism's hand off the scales.

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  • Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.

    I like StackOverflow's democratic moderation. It also scales better than centralised moderation.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    (first, thank you for achieving the straightforwardness that has escaped so many others here)

    What is the difference between online society and irl society that makes dictatorship preferable in one and democracy preferable in the other?

    Is it the size? The complexity?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Online spaces are limitless, basically. If you don't like living under someone else's rules it's dead easy to spin up your own space with your own rules. The dictatorship-ness of these virtual spaces keeps then semi-civil and on-topic. Ideally, at least. We are talking spherical cows here, obvs.

    Real life spaces, not so easy to spin up your own country. So we have to use a political system that (on paper, at least) caters to the majority without stepping on the minorities too much.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    @DominatorX1@thelemmy.club

    To build off this. Part of why people, who come off as reasonable and decent in person, can get so...very...VERY unhinged online is that

    Tap for personal opinionyou don't have to see the reaction of the people who read/hear what you're putting out there. Even in places where you don't actually have any real anonymity, there's an assumption that because no one is in the room with you while you madly smash away at your keyboard...well... People used to say there's no girls on the internet...I feel like most people just type whatever like there's no PEOPLE on the internet...

    TL;DR - can't see people being disgusted with what you just said.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People are generally very breakfast cereal. One musn't get worried about that.

    And the incongruity here. Preferring the one kind of government for one kind of society, but the other for another. That's a big deal. Bears discussing.

    It's one of those things that you wonder why nobody ever pointed it out.

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    Depends on the dictator, depends on the democracy. Ideally neither, but democracies are usually less awful than dictatorships.

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