• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    13 hours ago

    Not skeptically. Carefully. You can’t just say “okay, everyone vote on the laws directly” without thinking it through. You have to guarantee everybody’s rights, not just the ones who managed to overpower everyone else.

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        9 hours ago

        Because I don’t want to crawl out of one shit hole only to fall into another hastily constructed one. Let’s get it right. Let’s learn from the past. We know how misinformation and mass propaganda manipulates people against themselves in our current system. We can act to prevent that. We know the people who start amassing more than a certain amount of wealth start becoming unstoppable. We can fix that too. We know how minority rights get trampled now. Let’s put safeguards in for that too.

        Like I said, let’s be careful. Or the new system will get taken over by greed, hate, and fear just like any other.