LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia by bzbarsky on Friday November 18, 2016 @02:35AM (#12985046)

Yes. Any thinking person should be against democracy in the sense of "any time we can get one vote over 50% for something we should pass the something".

This is why the US government was set up with various undemocratic features. This is why there are things like constitutions that require supermajorities to modify.

Protecting minorities from the tyranny of the majority is one of the main purposes of good governmenance.

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Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia by mempko on Friday November 18, 2016 @03:36AM (#12985277)

Any thinking person recognizes that in the function "votes(issue) > X%" X isn't fixed to 50. I think people should get a say in proportion to how much it affects them and having X be 100% is a perfectly sane and optimal democratic decision process.

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Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia by bzbarsky on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:01AM (#12986401)

Having X be 100% means nothing ever gets decided outside of very very small groups. See http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-... for some actual data on what people do when presented with polls.

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Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia by Dolores12 on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:11AM (#12985666)

Yeah, thats why Trump won with minority of votes. Just as you like. And i like it too!

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Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia by Broken_Hippo on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:35AM (#12986279)

The US isn't even a democracy so it doesn't really apply, does it? He'd not have won in a democracy.

Democracy screws folks over very easily.

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Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia by bzbarsky on Saturday November 19, 2016 @12:34AM (#12992252)

Please don't make assumptions about what I like.

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