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It's easier to put out one fire instead of thousands.

sokoloff 4y ago
California would like a word. (Read that literally or politically, however you choose, but I don’t relish a “it’s completely out of control; all we can do is pray for rain or the winds to shift and hope it burns itself out while sparing 90% of the people...” scenario on a world scale, whether in politics or wild-fires.)
- throwmeariver1 4y ago
  California has the exact same problem I described it's not that the overall governance is the problem it's usually on local levels like the San Francisco DA or the LA county labour board...
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    Have you considered the possibility that there are just a lot of people who want different things from each other and from you? By the time you get to a group of citizens the size of San Francisco or Los Angeles, are you really going to benefit from me weighing in from Massachusetts, Anna weighing in from Rotterdam, or Jiang from Shanghai on what crime or homeless problems the city is facing or how tall buildings should be allowed to be in some part of the city? That’s not just a few wackos running for a local dog catcher position.
    - throwmeariver1 4y ago
      There is a net positive for the rule of majority instead of the individual rule. You can see it just now in russia.
      - sokoloff 4y ago
        Another possible view is that a large part of the problem in Russia is the massive, unchecked centralization of power and distributed, smaller governments would be better in this case.
        throwmeariver1 4y ago
        The centralization is not the problem, the problem in Russia is that a single individual wants to force its will over the ones of many. People are scared to voice their opinion and you are painting it as something desirable. Talk about individualism. What a lot of people and you miss to understand is that the majority is made up of individuals it's not an abstract mass it's a lot of real people that collectivly tell you to get lost.
        sokoloff 4y ago
        Could you point to the words that I've used which left an impression that I think anything about Putin or Russia's recent actions are something desirable? If I've somehow left that impression, I wish to correct it.
xboxnolifes 4y ago
Exactly, and at the local level you only need to put out 1 fire: the one affecting you.
- throwmeariver1 4y ago
  This is fine.

California would like a word. (Read that literally or politically, however you choose, but I don’t relish a “it’s completely out of control; all we can do is pray for rain or the winds to shift and hope it burns itself out while sparing 90% of the people...” scenario on a world scale, whether in politics or wild-fires.)

throwmeariver1 4y ago
California has the exact same problem I described it's not that the overall governance is the problem it's usually on local levels like the San Francisco DA or the LA county labour board...
- sokoloff 4y ago
  Have you considered the possibility that there are just a lot of people who want different things from each other and from you? By the time you get to a group of citizens the size of San Francisco or Los Angeles, are you really going to benefit from me weighing in from Massachusetts, Anna weighing in from Rotterdam, or Jiang from Shanghai on what crime or homeless problems the city is facing or how tall buildings should be allowed to be in some part of the city? That’s not just a few wackos running for a local dog catcher position.
  - throwmeariver1 4y ago
    There is a net positive for the rule of majority instead of the individual rule. You can see it just now in russia.
    - sokoloff 4y ago
      Another possible view is that a large part of the problem in Russia is the massive, unchecked centralization of power and distributed, smaller governments would be better in this case.
      - throwmeariver1 4y ago
        The centralization is not the problem, the problem in Russia is that a single individual wants to force its will over the ones of many. People are scared to voice their opinion and you are painting it as something desirable. Talk about individualism. What a lot of people and you miss to understand is that the majority is made up of individuals it's not an abstract mass it's a lot of real people that collectivly tell you to get lost.
        sokoloff 4y ago
        Could you point to the words that I've used which left an impression that I think anything about Putin or Russia's recent actions are something desirable? If I've somehow left that impression, I wish to correct it.

xboxnolifes 4y ago

Exactly, and at the local level you only need to put out 1 fire: the one affecting you.

throwmeariver1 4y ago
This is fine.