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Re:Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public... by adolph on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:56AM (#36405961)
> Democracy is what the people want. Majoritarianism is blindly doing what most people want.

Is democracy what most people want or just the people?

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Re:Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:02PM (#36406054)
> democracy what most people want or just the people

People, broadly. (And unfortunately, ambiguously.)

It is not what most people want, that’s majoritarianism, a known failure mode for democratic systems. The majority voting to execute the 10% whose views they don’t believe in is fine, electorally, but bankrupt, democratically.

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Re:Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public... by Exoristos on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:59PM (#36407003)
I think what JumpCrisscross is saying here is democracy is what the people are _supposed_ to want.
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Re:Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:04PM (#36407092)
> what JumpCrisscross is saying here is democracy is what the people are _supposed_ to want

No, it’s not.

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