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The most populous democracy on earth, everybody!
by hprotagonist 7y ago
The most populous democracy on earth, everybody!
- jdfellow 7y agoYeah, one that's nuclear armed and constantly on the brink of war with its nuclear armed neighbor. A bit worrying, no?
- yellowapple 7y agoTurns out Civilization bugs are more prescient than we thought.
- petermcneeley 7y agoHere is a paradox then. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/19/more-indians-support-military-rule-pew-research-center.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/19/mor...
- hprotagonist 7y agoThe American Conversation is an argument, after all, and way worse than our fear of error or anarchy or Gomorrahl decadence is our fear of theocracy or autocracy or any ideology whose project is not to argue or persuade but to adjourn the whole debate /sine die/.It's this logic (and perhaps this alone) that keeps protofascism or royalism or Maoism or any sort of really dire extremism from achieving mainstream legitimacy in the US---how does one vote for No More Voting?