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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by _Algernon_ on Monday August 04, 2025 @05:01PM (#44791291)
It doesn't matter because everyone only has to represent themselves so they don't really need to have integrity or ability to reason in some larger sense, they just have to be selfish — which is a lot easier than reasoning your way to what maximizes societal good, or some average of the 100'000+ people you are supposedly representing.

And the amount of power an individual has is negligible so a bad vote is diluted much more than it is in a representative democracy.

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by bpt3 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @09:55AM (#44798015)
You realize that a certain "institution" would have died out much slower (if at all) in the US if what you said was accurate?

I think that's the only example needed to prove that direct democracy is not a desirable form of government, let alone the ideal.

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