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  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.ml"Democracy"
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    21 days ago

    If voting didn’t work, you will blame it on corruption or unprecedented times like war or natural disaster.

    Its either democracy or some external thing happened, never that voting didn’t bring democracy.

    And we haven’t even touched the subject of legally making it difficult for minority and “unwanted” groups to vote. We also didn’t talk about immigrants who live work and pay taxes but are not represented by voting




  • Liberalism is the ideology that says everyone should have equal rights, freedom of speech etc except “bad/troublesome actors”.

    In practice, bad/troublesome actors can include anyone. This ideology was created in early USA and in britain. And its proponents, on one hand said “equal rights for all” but also had slaves. In britain, liberals supported the subjugation of india because india was “a bunch of barbaric savages who needed to be civilized”. Today immigrants or religious minorities are also excluded from these rights under the pretense of national security.

    What we have today is neo-liberalism, that extends liberalism to include economic policies such as capitalism, and finance banking etc. (There’s probably more to it, but i am a bit rusty in my knowledge about this topic).


  • In general I agree with you, but I would refrain from using evolution/DNA example. Because then it leads to ‘social darwinism’.

    Evolution does not mean ‘more evolved is better’ but rather ‘more suited to the environment’.

    Take psychopathy (or even apthy towards minority groups) as an example, in a capitalist system, psychopathy is more evolved because you get to climb the corporate ladder faster.

    But this assumes that capitalism is unchanging, and final form of our society. But in reality, we can change the system. Under socialism or social democracy (with strict laws), psychopathy would no longer be ‘more evolved’.










  • Well, my comment was a classic “yo momma” joke. You asking for “what about hamas?” Is a very common fascist deflection. So if you talk like a fascist, don’t be mad to be treated as such.

    Next, armed struggle against an oppressive colonizing regime is protected under international law. And hamas is THE GOVERNMENT there that means even a government employed janitor as treated as a “terrorist”. In fact IOF uses this exact same rhetoric to kill civilian in gaza.

    As a popular mainstream icon, radiohead has power that we everyday individuals don’t. And when you talk like “oh hamas and IDF same same” that makes you either complicit at best or genocide apologist at worst.