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Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible by bombcar on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:18PM (#36440580)
I’m starting to think that’s the primary purpose of voting - to get people to feel complicit in actions they didn’t want by people they didn’t want in places they didn’t know existed.
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Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible by jacquesm on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:43PM (#36440796)
In Switzerland it pretty much works exactly like that.
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Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible by ElFitz on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:15PM (#36441536)
That, and providing legitimacy to the existing power structures, no matter how much of a say people actually have.

And delegitimising all others forms of feedback and expression.

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Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible by hef19898 on Friday June 23, 2023 @05:06AM (#36444477)
Than you have a clearly distorted view of democracy. And I do not feel complicit, why would I? But, as part of the Western democratic world, I cannot simply ignore everything we did all over the world in the last 20 odd years and pretend it was some outside force doing all of that. Democracy, regardless of shape in form, is exactly about giving people a voice in those affaires. Which is a good thing, IMHO.
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