Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry

• 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Forgive the old internet phrase, but

  inb4 “It was never meant to. We’re a Republic, not a direct democracy.”

  A Republic implies that the elected officials endeavor to represent the will of the people. If you think that’s going on in America, you may need to schedule a trepanning procedure or something because some shit’s wrong with your brain.

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  • SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, but that’s like saying “communism definitely works, we just haven’t seen it done right yet” when it’s clear to outsiders that it’s meant to not work, in the exact way it’s not working, for the benefit of powerful elites, as has been the purpose and product of nearly every human government to date. This whole “having a government” experiment is the longest running, most repeated, and frankly easiest scam mankind ever invented.

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    • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …I don’t think you know what “inb4” means because I feel like we’re making the same argument in a lot of ways.

      but since we’re here anyway, I’m not an anarchist because a large, unorganized mass of well-intentioned people is easily wrecked by a smaller, organized mass of poorly-intentioned people. Creating an organized mass of well-intentioned people seems to be the ideal in that case. People are just flawed and we have to figure out how to work around that. We’re also still evolving (in this case, socially more than biologically, but that’s a really superior form of evolution in many cases). We’ve been living in societies of this scale for a very short period compared to our entire evolutionary history.

      I wouldn’t really describe myself as a communist either, I haven’t read enough THEORY for that lol, but I think it’s more likely to work than anarchism. And we’re obviously watching capitalism fail for literally all life on Earth so that’s a foregone conclusion.

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      • SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Organization is one thing. Hierarchy is another. Try doing the former without someone emerging to ensure the latter to their own benefit.

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  • cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe electing people to have power over you isn’t really democracy? Like ever? Maybe you don’t need other people making decisions, but to work them the fuck out among yourselves?

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think there are historians and such who have dedicated their lives to studying this shit that can say.

      And they say you’re wrong.

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      • cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re right. I was being ridiculous. VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO

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