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DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 hours ago

Which do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship?

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Which do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship?

DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 hours ago
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  • Raymond Shannon@lemmy.ml
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    Democracy, like mostly anyone. But it depends on anyone’s conception, here.

    • DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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      If the dictator was you, might that make dictatorship more attractive?

  • loomy@lemy.lol
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    neither

  • diegeticalt (any)@lemmygrad.ml
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    Democratic dictatorship of the proletariat

  • Geodad@lemmy.world
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    No.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    Why do some of the questions asked in this sub make it sound like the OP’s first day as a human being?

    • DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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      Why do you dance around like this instead of just answering the question?

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    Homie had his shit removed and now its everyone’s problem.

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      Actually somebody else got their shit removed and I wax philosophical on their behalf. I’m sophisticated that way.

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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    ???

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    Who would realistically say dictator? Putin?

    • DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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      Every moderator on lemmy, apparently.

      • andrewta@lemmy.world
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        Sure

  • Vampire [any]@hexbear.net
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    I love them all equally Care-Comrade

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    Depends on the dictator, depends on the democracy. Ideally neither, but democracies are usually less awful than dictatorships.

    • DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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      How about for lemmy?

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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        Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

        That said, it’s not democracy, either: It’s a federation of interdependent polities, each with their own laws and administrators. Which is good, because it allows for rapid response to spam, inappropriate content, and verbal violence.

        And if the admins or moderators overreach, well, back to the first paragraph: we’ve got open borders, go homestead your own community on another instance. You literally cannot be silenced here.

        • DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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          Democracy means that power is held by the people. It doesn’t mean that if you don’t like it you can leave.

          • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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            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.

            • DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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              In a democracy the vote determines policy.

              But this is obvious. Right?

              • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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                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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                  And you also stated that it is inherently democratic.

                  Would it kill you to stop being so coy and evasive?

                  It’s a thousand dictatorships.

              • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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                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.

                • DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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                  Yeah but they aren’t actually determining policy. Obviously.

                  Why are you bullshitting?

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    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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      How about for lemmy communities?

      • rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
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        Same

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          Everybody says democracy but given the opportunity to be dictator they will choose dictatorship every time.

          Is that a realistic assessment?

          • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website
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            No.

            • DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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              Ten-thousand Lemmy and Reddit moderators say otherwise.

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