(first, thank you for achieving the straightforwardness that has escaped so many others here)

What is the difference between online society and irl society that makes dictatorship preferable in one and democracy preferable in the other?

Is it the size? The complexity?

If the dictator was you, might that make dictatorship more attractive?

But that wasn’t my question, was it?

My question was whether you prefer a democracy or a dictatorship.

The answer is clearly dictatorship.

And you also stated that it is inherently democratic.

Would it kill you to stop being so coy and evasive?

It’s a thousand dictatorships.

Yeah but they aren’t actually determining policy. Obviously.

Why are you bullshitting?

In a democracy the vote determines policy.

But this is obvious. Right?

Democracy means that power is held by the people. It doesn’t mean that if you don’t like it you can leave.

How about for lemmy?

Why do you dance around like this instead of just answering the question?

Actually somebody else got their shit removed and I wax philosophical on their behalf. I’m sophisticated that way.

Every moderator on lemmy, apparently.

Give burnout a chance

You should write children’s books.

What’s mindfulness?

(No links or quotes please.)

Like, distinctive vibration patterns.

Hmm, surely it’s been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.

Totally not the point but from that picture of cubicles. What a great idea. If we entered the cubicle from the top we could fit way more cubicles in.

I think that nazi is an expression of trauma, given form by propaganda.

Take away the trauma and nazi disappears.

Take away the propaganda and you get, I dunno, less organized bad behavior.

You people, always so concerned with being right. It gets in the way of conversation.

Easily said. But the psychological power of authority is so big. Authorities in the role of leader, expert, and the authority of the consensus. It may very well be programmed into our biology to automatically obey and believe. We may find ourselves falling into rigid belief without even trying.

That’s troubling logic.