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Re:The famous Peter Thiel interview question by kick on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:02PM (#21963645)
It may be fascist, it may not be, but what he's arguing in that piece isn't strictly wrong. Representative democracy has largely failed, and, like Thiel said, is incompatible with maximum freedom. However, whether maximum freedom is desirable (I don't think it is) is up to the reader.
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Re:The famous Peter Thiel interview question by monocasa on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:51PM (#21964759)
> Representative democracy has largely failed

[citation needed]

Also I love how all the people here arguibg that Thiel isn't a fascist, are simultaneously agreeeing that democracy was a mistake.

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Re:The famous Peter Thiel interview question by kick on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:40PM (#21965094)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#United_States

Failure is the right word for indirect democracy, which is also known as representative democracy.

Every terrible President in the past fifty years hasn't been elected by popular vote, representative democracies enable gerrymandering, and direct democracy has been shown repeatedly to have none of these problems. See: Switzerland.

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Re:The famous Peter Thiel interview question by monocasa on Monday January 06, 2020 @12:11PM (#21970837)
A) posting the United States paragraph of the republic wiki article has to be the laziest argument I've seen in a long while.

B) Switzerland is very much a representative democracy still.

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