• deaf_fish@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Ok then, using your metrics we never had democracy. Using my metrics we had democracy, and I would prefer that to fascism.

    But I also like stronger democracy. So if we can make improvements I’m all for it.

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      10 hours ago

      If I were (as a thought exercise) to consider your metrics for democracy valid, I’d have to enquire as to what the point of democracy even is if it comes with fascism as a built-in feature - which, of course, is perfectly acceptable if we were to use your metrics.

      And that’s before we even get into the nitty gritty of how your metrics of democracy solves the fundamentally violent and fundamentally irreconcilable incompatibility between democratic values and the capitalist mode of production.

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        3 hours ago

        Why are you mad at me? All I am saying is what we have right now is worse than what we had last year and I would like that back at the very least. I never said that what we had a year ago would solve all the problems or was the ideal government or the best form of democracy.