Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed

Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by OoTheNigerian on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @05:45AM (#12085021)

I'm merely criticizing your criticism (the loop goes on). I didn't say you did not have the right to criticize.

People declare others who win stupid while claiming to to be democrats. That is hypocrisy.

While I similarly think people are stupid, I am not a fan of popular democracy. I believe my position is consistent with my belief. I am criticizing the hypocrisy of being democrat only when you get what you want.

Just like the labour party folks in the UK.

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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by jacquesm on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @06:03AM (#12085074)

Democracy is far from perfect. So it is perfectly ok to use democracy but to always be suspicious of that which gets decided democratically.

That's not hypocrisy, it is simply the best adaptation to reality that I can come up with.

And it has nothing to do with 'getting what I want', if NL will vote massively for Wilders in the next election (our local light-weight populist get-rid-of-all-Islamists-and-our-problems-will-magically-disappear politician) then I will consider that a failure of democracy.

Not because I don't get 'what I want' but because it will likely cause great harm to my country.

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