Bro. This is NOT a democracy
There is NOTHING GOOD about democracy
51% shitting on the 49%
Tyranny of the majority
What about the smallest minority?? The minority of 1?
The press, social media vibe, and energy has shifted from Trump to Harris, but the polling shows that if the election were held today, Trump would win the electoral college by a landslide and lose the popular vote.
If this holds, it would mean that in 2000, 2016, and 2024 the Republicans won the election despite losing the popular vote. Only one time the Republicans win the election AND a majority of the votes this century, 2004.
What amazes me is how this dynamic is just accepted. This is not a well functioning democracy.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states
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The TxtMob app we made which was one of the prototypes that lead to twitter was created with the GOAL of stopping W from getting re-elected… It didn’t work but we did learn how to send text messages.
https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/zw0ja7r2/release/6
W was a sick fuck. But again just a PR man for the banking cartel
“Democracy” means nothing to those that print money from thin air
Still reading (third way through) but I was thinking about this earlier today, the difference between freedom of speech vs the protection of activism. There is this fine line and definitely social context is at play when it comes to the protocol and the needs. After watching the debate of deleting notes and why it should or should not happen. I don't think people understand how important it is to protect the people saying the words or self-sovereignty. You forcing me to stay in "your system" is kind of the same as what these mega platforms do. No? I think having something like TxtMob - in a sense - as a feature of Nostr is ideal for spreading something important that is needed to be said, but also have the features where a person can protect themselves. I understand Nos is doing this, so I am not including your client in this, but this is what I am curious about. You want to say whatever you want to say, fine. Free speech, but you also should understand we are not all comfortable expressing something that may end up hurting us. Also I know this is not really relevant to this discussion, but it's in my head and this article reminded me of this thought I had at work earlier today. This also may be ramblings because I am tired. Is free speech to some on nostr, just that, free speech. They just want to say whatever. Or is free speech about bringing the truth to the front? You know, anyways, thank you for the article, i will read more later. I enjoyed it so far.
> 51% shitting on the 49%
... is a big improvement on 1% shitting on the 99%.
> Tyranny of the majority
... is not great, but it's much better than tyranny of the minority.
Anyway, those who've lived in China (eg me, 2 years near Shanghai) know that majority-rules elections are not the definition of democracy. The CCP use majority-rules elections. That doesn't make China democratic.
The real differences between democracy and autocracy are more subtle. They're found in things like freedom of expression and association for citizens. Media freedoms for publishers and telecoms services. Due process under the law, which applies even to people in the highest levels of governance. A permeable border, so people can vote with their feet, rather than being effectively prisoners of the state.
A society could lack officials elected by majority vote, but if it had all those, it would be democratic.
China and commies are one thing but even in a monarchy the king may sleep from time to time, but the bureaucracy in a democracy never does