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icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Aw, cute, you don’t think we’re already there

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty much any limited voter group will be incentivized to make decisions in its own interests, even if it hurts everyone else.

    People calling for such forms of voting assume total benevolence and, on top of that, perfect knowledge of the struggles of others, better than those struggling know themselves.

    Total democracy allows everyone to remain self-inrerested and doesn’t require guessing the needs of others.

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    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      guessing the needs of others.

      Food, shelter, community, drugs and the weapons to defend it all.

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      • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Also access to healthcare (including mental health and crisis lines), education, emergency services, social care, transportation, communications (both physical and virtual), general infrastructure, and that’s just the absolute basics.

        Not to mention free access to drugs requires doubling down on healthcare, peace and order, community service. Also, drugs and guns are a very questionable combo.

        In other words, if we would actually have a limited circle of politically educated voters, you’d likely be out.

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yay, did my job of putting out an unpopular opinion. I’m not unemployed enough to engage. Each to their own.

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Uhhh huh

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• kunaltyagi@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Instead of universal suffrage, we should have lottery. 1 random person gets selected instead of elected

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Might actually come out ahead of whatever is going on these days.

    Dude on the shitter gets a notification that he’s the president now, and gets handed nuke codes.

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    • kunaltyagi@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Athens had that it worked pretty well. It increases representation and prevents a career politician

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• Tryenjer@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just make it random.

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The problem with a statistically representative sample of the population is that you end up baking in the stupidity inherent in the average population. It is a good statistical representation, but that’s not our objective.

    We’re here to yap about clearly unpopular opinions. You can shit on mine, but share yours so we can shit on you as well.

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