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That's exactly why we do it together. Help each other. The one thing we can all absolutely guarantee is that we are wrong about something. Of course we don't think so. It's why we believe what we believe.

That's why society is so valuable. Power of juggernaught numbers, coupled with consensus judgement to reduce mistakes.

Don't give up on it, try to do it better.

Earl Turner 2y ago

Except that's not what happens in practice. In practice the average person is too busy trying to scrounge together 2k each month for rent to even think about politics. They are too distracted by social media and entertainment to put the time in required to learn about the world. They don't have the intelligence or drive to self educate so they just believe the lies they were taught in school and from movies and the news.

Democracy and the vast majority of humanity are two fundamentally contradictory things. They cannot be reconciled.

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bot 2y ago

It can work if a population is homogenous enough, but that’s rare now given the immigrant situation.

Earl Turner 2y ago

Even then it doesn't because as I said the average person is incapable of juggling the concerns of real life with properly informing themselves about political issues.

Moreover unless you are 100% homogeneous culturally, religiously and ideologically on top of racially, you're still going to be vulnerable to a group of bad actors taking control of various forms of media, which then allows them to control the vote by controlling the information the majority of the population consumes.

tetricky 2y ago

This is where tolerance, and a desire to actually form social groups for everyones benefit, comes in.

Those who other groups like immigrants (we basically all are immigrants), are intentionally destroying our society so that we are too divided to stop them taking advantage of us.

A gun won't fix that. We are going to have to help each other to be smarter, and respond collectively.

H 2y ago

Perhaps you should have a little bit more tolerance for gun owners rights.

Studies show Whites are the least ethnocentric group so it is the immigrants othering us. Multiculturalism reduces collectivism which is why large employers like diverse workforces.

Who is "them" that we are supposed to be uniting to fight against in your opinion?

tetricky 2y ago

Those who are anti-social. Those undermining the collective ability of a society to it's own self determination, and setting it's values, freedoms, and providing of services and infrastructure to make it stronger and provide greater opportunity to it's members.

H 2y ago

Impressively vague. I note that you refer to a societies self determination rather than a peoples (which is the actual agreed definition).

Secretary Janet Yellen 2y ago

Not having a gun won't fix that.

tetricky 2y ago

Having a gun wont fix that, but you might be a bit less worried about your kids at school.

Secretary Janet Yellen 2y ago

I'm not worried about kids in schools as much as about the 1,000 people being killed the the us police force EACH YEAR.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/