• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Yes, in theory democracy would be the stop gap.

    But it turns out that democracy is only as good as the education and understanding of the public. I’m losing faith in that, as many many people have shown that they can’t mature past mental teenagers.

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      6 hours ago

      @surewhynotlem @DisgruntledGorillaGang the education that was eroded as planned by conservatives. Its the easiest thing. Brainwash the public, and make sure that actual smart people are mocked and ignored. Then bring in more putrid trash like fox news to solidify false beliefs. Sprinkle on some llm slop disinformation . and you have fascism.

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      10 hours ago

      People who support anarchy don’t seem to realize that a representative democracy is exactly their goal, and we’re currently seeing how that plays out.

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        7 hours ago

        Yeah. I never understood the anarchy thing. Every definition of anarchy that I’ve come across, which admittedly is not all of them, just seems to boil down to “people will do the right thing”. But they don’t. And they also ignore the fact that people outside the group will band together and do the wrong thing and take over your group.