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Which do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship?
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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In a democracy, the community determines policy. Votes are orthogonal. If the community leaves when they disagree, by definition everyone that is remains agrees with the policy, making it a democratic policy. The friction to changing instance is very minimal, so it's a good indicator of people's opinions.
Yeah but they aren't actually determining policy. Obviously.
Why are you bullshitting?
The first sentence was a response to you asserting voting is essential to democracy, which is false. The rest of the comment was a response to you not accepting Nemo@slrpnk.net's argument.
If you can't find an instance you agree with, and you have a mass of people who agree with you but are collectively too lazy to create a new instance, you would communicate your stance with words. Lemmy has a system for leaving text statements. You seem to be familiar. But there's no mechanism to force the instance operator to obey you.
But that wasn't my question, was it?
My question was whether you prefer a democracy or a dictatorship.
The answer is clearly dictatorship.