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Americans: Never, EVER question again how Hitler came to power in 1933 Germany by andymouse in c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

[-] andymouse@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 days ago

The non-voters had nothing to do with this. They literally did not participate.

Any real democracy would count the non-voters as part of the results. 20M not voting? OK then, any policies that affect everyone can no longer be enacted. No new laws. No new wars. Government can then maintain plumbing and provide public services, that's it.

Why isn't that the case? Why is it not a requirement for people to vote for government to have power?

Democracy...? Sure. Whatever hope you need to feel, friend, see you in the streets I hope.

Without irony, cops just nicked four Just Stop Oil supporters in the middle of ACTUAL race riots by andymouse in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[-] andymouse@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago

FTP?

hope is a radical act by andymouse in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

[-] andymouse@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

From an evolutionary perspective, only the ones who survive matter.

So in that spirit, the only way to create a society resistant to power consolidations is one that actively recognizes, seeks out and annihilates said power consolidations.

As otherwise, they will annihilate everything opposing them -- as history tells us.

There are gentler social traditions to distribute wealth and power so as to avoid consolidation. Probably the post-colonial world is beyond that point.

A scary prospect, to be sure, but in the grand scheme of things.. "The secrets of evolution are time and death" as Carl Sagan said in Cosmos.

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George Carlin on voting (youtu.be)

submitted 8 months ago by andymouse@slrpnk.net to c/notvoting@slrpnk.net

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His argument is that if you vote, then you carry responsibility for the outcome.

This is what I think.

We all know the game is rigged. So what do I tell myself by, yet again, participating in a game I know is rigged?

It's not a matter of effort. It's a psychological statement to vote -- and by voting I give my authority to this system. I say that I believe in it enough to vote. So, on some level, I think voting matters.

Personally I don't think it does. Not on any level.

If you had the choice between clapping for a dictator or not, what would you do? It's so easy to clap! Just clap, and perhaps the dictator will be in a better mood for the next four years.

What does dictatorship have to do with democracy? Democracy is an oppressive system that is easily gamed. Our model historical example of it is Greece -- a slave society.

THERE ARE BETTER WAYS. Let the turnout be 10% and let's have a discussion about legitimacy. Voters give legitimacy to a corrupt system. STOP IT.

UN criticises 'severe' Just Stop Oil sentences by andymouse in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[-] andymouse@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Only if other people can't hear you or you'll be a disturber of the peace.

Fox news on transgender marathon runner by andymouse in c/twoxchromosomes@slrpnk.net

[-] andymouse@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago

YES YES YES. Some linguistic part of my mind just had an orgasm.

All of this has just been distraction by andymouse in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[-] andymouse@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago

I think people care, we're just trained into patterns of learned helplessness and isolation over generations.

There were large swathes of people who resisted during the 19th and 20th centuries, they were systematically murdered en masse. I bet it has happened many times over the centuries.

Sometimes I wonder if we've bred ourselves into either loyal obedience or dispassionate compliance because everyone else was always killed by the first group while being ignored by the second.