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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by galfarragem on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:56AM (#43217748)
I read the situation in a different way: majorities should rule - ultimately this is what a democracy means. Allowing minorities to define the agenda, no matter how glamorous it seems, is the path for disaster. The majorities can’t be forgotten and the last decade showed exactly that.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by ben_w on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:13AM (#43218508)
Sure.

Majority of who, exactly? Where is the boundary of the dēmos from whence the word "democracy" comes?

Is it even constant for all things, or should powers of self derermination shift as group sizes change: what power should the people of California and New York have to tell the people of Texas that there are decisions they cannot make? What power should the USA have to tell Russia or Ukraine what to do?

Because the US is a minority of the world. So is the EU. So is China, despite being larger than both combined.

Half the world lives within 3300 km of Mong Khet, Myanmar; should they determine all world rules down to planning permission, or just global matters such as mandatory climate change reaponses and enforcing global treaties?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by galfarragem on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:23AM (#43218562)
Minorities have the right to make/propose all the rules they want. What I mean is that majorities can’t be forced to comply. That wouldn’t be a democracy. By the way, minorities and majorities are fractal.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by johnnyanmac on Saturday March 01, 2025 @08:36AM (#43219087)
So why can a single executive decide to force rules in? Why is an unelected, unvetted team of a few dozen people capable of firing millions of employees? WHy can a court of 9 people not voted in determine the law of the land?

Not really shocked such a take is contradictory in and of itself.

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by Timwi on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:29AM (#43218269)
This is the closest I've seen to hate speech without being outright hate speech.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by zith on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:04AM (#43218459)
Of course, majority is not very cleanly applicable yous politics. Less than half (which according to Mirriam Webster is the definition) of the votes cast in the last election went to Trump/Vance, and with such a poor voter turnout it was even further from a majority. Meanwhile the electoral college is working against the idea.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by johnnyanmac on Saturday March 01, 2025 @08:34AM (#43219073)
>Allowing minorities to define the agenda, no matter how glamorous it seems, is the path for disaster . It's a really good thing every civil movement, including the civil war itself, disagrees with you. No progressive movement ever suddenly started with a bunch of people changing their mind on a dime withno infuence from the "minorities" first.