• smb@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    a system where you get served only two options to vote for but are held responsible for the outcome instead of those who limited the available options in the first place?

    eh yes, you are right, this is stupid.

    as a completely unrelated sidenote:

    “winner takes it all” is the actual opposite of democracy, no matter how the voting was done, and this fact can already be read 1:1 within those 4 simple words 😉

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      4 days ago

      this is stupid too. Democracy is mathematically impossible. Condorcet’s paradox and all that.

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        Democracy is mathematically impossible.

        if democracy was not possible, how does it come that the greek did democracy and it is said they were once overrun in a war because of beeing democratic? if something was a cause for a turn of a war, i pretty much believe it to really exist, no matter what some kind of half baked formulars “predicted” once.

        if democracy existed and your math says thats not possible, i’ld guess your math might simply be ‘slightly’ wrong about it or was created with (un-)intentional biases in mind ;-)

        just to note:

        in the history of human predictions based on thought through and wordly/mathmatically described rules, the most common thing afterwards was, that those rules and also their predictions were just fundamentally wrong and biased.