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A truly perfect democracy doesn't seem possible. Exactly. This is why it is also possible for USA to bomb or otherwise subvert any country because they don't c
by anticodon 6y ago
A truly perfect democracy doesn't seem possible.
Exactly. This is why it is also possible for USA to bomb or otherwise subvert any country because they don't confirm to some definition of democracy. Because there will never be perfect democracy, the strong bully can plunder any country saying: "You're not perfect democracy, so give up your resources to me!".
This doesn't contradict the fact that democracy is something to strive for. Most people would like to have their voices heard and not be subjugated by authoritarian leaders.
Is there any country in the world where your voice would be heard unless you're a highly ranked bureaucrat or media star? In US, which is considered a "near perfect" democracy you can't say a lot of things because either you'll be blocked by monopolistic Internet media (FB, Twitter, YouTube) or you'll be "canceled" (like RMS and many others) or both.
So what should we strive for?
And why would I care? What do I need to say to the government? There're 140,000,000 of us in Russia and all have different opinions and little understanding outside of our area of expertise. If we'll all say something, the result we'll be chaos and noise.
Besides, contrary to what western media says, there's more freedom of speech in Russia than in the West. E.g. I read critics of Putin every day on all Russian social networks. I have friends that criticize Putin for years openly. They were never even invited to police or their accounts blocked. So what?
- mekkkkkk 6y agoThe voice you have in a representative democracy is the right to vote for a candidate that acts as a proxy for your personal opinions, combined with the right to start a political campaign/party if none align with you. The foundation for this is fair elections and lack of censorship. Personally I do feel like I'm having my voice heard when I cast a vote at the ballot box. I'm not going to entertain your tangential whataboutisms. There are a lot of problems in the world today, we can agree on that.
- ezconnect 6y agoYcombinator is also a western propaganda and most Americans in here thinks they live in a democratic country. They will downvote you here if you don't parrot the US propaganda. They should try looking into their country from the outside.
- ezconnect 6y agoThey surrounded your country with military assets and materials and you are the one acting aggressively in their democratic propaganda media machines which is owned by a couple of billionaires. I think the west think you should move out of earth and move to another planet. Oh then they will accuse you of aggression again if you occupy the moon. The US probably envy your military budget for all the campaign you are doing to undermine their democracy.
- croon 6y agoYou forgot to switch accounts before your second post.
- ezconnect 6y agoIt still me, that reply is just for the downvoters, ycombinator has been politcal lately not a tech news anymore. Propaganda is spilling over to all tech news sight in the past few years. Economist is one of the propaganda machine of the west it used to be a nice magazine.
- croon 6y agoIgnorance might be bliss, but I urge you to consider that maybe your state media is lying to you.
- ezconnect 6y agoI am not American nor Russian. I don't care about world news. I only replied to this post because ycombinator has been showing political news being on front page lately and that is irritating. The comments shows how blind the Americans are on how people view them. It so sad to see how a country cheers on the destruction of lives of another country just to sell weapons and oil. I hope ycombinator bans or outright delete this kinds of post.
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