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@alyx @Leyonhjelm @ChristiJunior @caekislove @dave
It is a tool, and it IS used correctly.

It is just a dumb assumption, that a role of a government is to stabilize society. It is not.

Government is the biggest mafia on the block. And mafia has only 2 goals. Collect the money, and keep other mafias out of their territory.

@Leyonhjelm @ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty @caekislove @dave
The problem I've personally identified in Europe regarding democracy, is that neither the people nor the politicians seem to understand what the role of the democratic process should be in a state.

EU has made extreme efforts in promoting democracy and the rule of law as the goals to strive for within the union, especially to the ex-soviet parts of EU. Merkel and co. love to bludgeon us on the head with propaganda that these need to be the goals of any EU country. But this is completely backwards in my view.

Democracy and the rule of law SHOULDN'T be the goals you strive for. Some of the worst countries in the world have democratic elections, without helping them get any better. As for the rule of law, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had a rule of law too, it's just that the laws were corrupt and unjust. So once again rule of law alone solves nothing.

I think Americans got it right though. The goals for a society should be liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And democracy should be nothing more than a tool to use in pursuit of those goals. And if at some point it turns out you can ditch democracy for something else, and doing so achieves more liberty and happiness for the people, then ditching democracy is something that should be done.

So my conclusion is not that democracy isn't real, or that it doesn't work, it's just that people are using it wrong and then trying to blame the tool, as every shoddy worker will do.

@admin
If someone told me 5 years ago, that this was a Chinese propaganda, I would respond with: Chinese people aren't dumb enough to fall for this...

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Normies: use a sleep monitor.
Me: Checks, my last fedi post to measure sleep length.

@Ruq
I never understood the obsession with locking doors.

Most apartments do not have the handle on the outside anyway, It adds about 5s for a lockpicking, It adds 0s against crowbar/kick...

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