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Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down by colinmhayes on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:12AM (#25868548)
It was designed to be unfair. The small states threw a fit at the constitutional convention so now we're stuck with this bs. Why does representative democracy mean some people are more represented than others? Why can't everyone be equally represented in a representative democracy?
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down by triceratops on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:20AM (#25868591)
Right? "We are a representative democracy" is some Orwellian doublespeak. It leaves out "But some people are more represented than others."
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down by colinmhayes on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:12AM (#25868900)
"All votes are representative, but some votes are more representative than others."
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down by fjabre on Saturday January 23, 2021 @10:31AM (#25882885)
You bring up Orwell. Both sides can get to extremism pretty easily. Both conservatives and liberals easily become dictators. Power corrupts everyone.

This has nothing to do with Orwell. Im not sure why you bring him up.

The forefathers designed the system this way. I agree with the way it was designed. It prevents big states like California and New York from calling all the shots.

I agree with the forefathers. You do not. Simple.

Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down by triceratops on Sunday January 24, 2021 @08:45PM (#25898137)
> Im not sure why you bring him up.

Because saying "it's a representative democracy" is doublespeak. If you have one person representing tens of millions and another person representing a small city (~150k people), and they have the same vote, it's not meaningfully "representative". Saying "it's a representative democracy" doesn't tell you anything about the fairness of the system.

> I agree with the way it was designed.

Because it favors you. It would be a bad system even if it was the other way around (i.e. it favored the other side).

> It prevents big states like California and New York from calling all the shots.

I'm still to hear a good argument for why it's better for small states to call shots instead.

> I agree with the forefathers. You do not. Simple.

I'm fine with that. They were as fallible as anyone else and could not have foreseen that their system might have flaws. There's no need to deify them and think that everything they did was right.