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Re:Who needs democracy when you have data? by coldtea on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:19AM (#17810359)
>If Trump, Brexit and Duterte are what the people want, perhaps we live in societies that are incapable of self-governance

Only if we take the preferences of the 10% of well cushioned (who see themselves as Elois and the masses as Morlocks) as some universal law, or _the good_ itself, as opposed to what they are: preferences based on their private interests.

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Re:Who needs democracy when you have data? by fcarraldo on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:26AM (#17810428)
You are advocating for the marginalization of minorities if popular opinion is that minorities should be marginalized.

This is the very definition of "tyranny of the majority", and is also self-defeating in terms of democracy: marginalized groups are no longer fully represented in democracies once they have been marginalized.

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Re:Who needs democracy when you have data? by coldtea on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:51PM (#17811295)
>You are advocating for the marginalization of minorities if popular opinion is that minorities should be marginalized.

That's part of democracy. Whether they should be marginalized or not is up to the culture, not to the political system.

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