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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 21:17:48 JST Bread up, Bro

   • Bread up, Bro
   You can argue about if democracy *can* work, but I can guarantee you it won't work when you make it your god.
   
   Refusing to look at the flaws ( "it's bad, but everything else is worse" - is this ) is making it your god.
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/40ca4355-af5a-4299-8b71-f7f1d9e78fbb
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 21:34:26 JST sj_zero

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     "And this is called the wealthy class, and the drones feed upon them.
     
     That is pretty much the case, he said.
     
     The people are a third class, consisting of those who work with their own hands; they are not politicians, and have not much to live upon. This, when assembled, is the largest and most powerful class in a democracy.
     
     True, he said; but then the multitude is seldom willing to congregate unless they get a little honey.
     
     And do they not share? I said. Do not their leaders deprive the rich of their estates and distribute them among the people; at the same time taking care to reserve the larger part for themselves?
     
     Why, yes, he said, to that extent the people do share.
     
     And the persons whose property is taken from them are compelled to defend themselves before the people as they best can?
     
     What else can they do?" - Plato discussing democracy in book 8 of The Republic. This is part of a description of how democracy descends inevitably into Tyranny.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 21:34:59 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • sj_zero
     @sj_zero yes, we are much more alike the Greeks than a progressive wants to admit.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 21:35:16 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • AmonMaritza
     @AmonMaritza because it makes their tummy sad
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     AmonMaritza (amonmaritza@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 21:35:17 JST AmonMaritza

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     Why is Christian Theocratic Monarchy worse?
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     Nierenstein: "Funny" (Self-Described) (nierenstein@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 21:45:53 JST Nierenstein: "Funny" (Self-Described)

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     • AmonMaritza
     @SuperSnekFriend @AmonMaritza @sickburnbro Even then, an insincere convert can very well raise sincerely faithful children. An open nonbeliever can only do that if his children go against him.
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 21:45:54 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     • AmonMaritza
     @AmonMaritza @sickburnbro Because imposing Christian culture is bad, for some reason, and encouraging conversion indirectly through imposing Christian culture means too many insincere converts, supposedly.*
     
     *I've never seen anyone prove that from Scriptures itself, except maybe a couple of completely out-of-context verses (mainly John 18:36 and Ephesians 6:12). It's primarily through an extra-Biblical interpretation of history or through some natural law theorem.