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Re:Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporat... by Zigurd on Monday August 31, 2015 @10:44PM (#10150412)
I'd rather you delegate your decisions to Ice-T than Donald Trump. The question is whether this system is an improvement over current forms of representative republic, which have rotted into democracy-lite as a fig leaf on oligarchy.
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Re:Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporat... by Sven7 on Monday August 31, 2015 @11:06PM (#10150490)
Would it be an improvement? Depends on the issues. Think about the Greek Debt crisis.

Pretty sure everyone would take their vote back from politicians under pressure to make the difficult calls, and vote to hang the bankers and put off interest payments.

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Re:Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporat... by Zigurd on Monday August 31, 2015 @11:17PM (#10150528)
Your position appears to be that the professional politicians who got Greece into the crisis by cooking the debt books would be better than the Greek people at getting them out of the crisis.
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