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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 12:49:00 JST Rich Felker

   • Coach Pāṇini ®

   @PharaohBender27 @paninid Contrary view: a republic has been a protofascist, antidemocratic form of government since ancient times (when it was explicitly "pseudo democracy by the ruling class", in place of actual democracy) and the sooner we realize that the better.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 13:06:03 JST Rich Felker

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®

     @PharaohBender27 @paninid There is no point at which America "went wrong" by straying from founding ideals. The founding principles were copied from bad ideas from history, but they allowed enough space for people who care to strive to improve, and we've been doing that ever since.

     We need to preserve and keep making space for that.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 13:36:01 JST Rich Felker

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     • M.S. Bellows, Jr.

     @msbellows @PharaohBender27 @paninid Sortition. Same way it was sine historically.

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     M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 13:36:02 JST M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®

     @dalias @PharaohBender27 @paninid I think I agree, but how the hell would one implement a true direct democracy rather than a republic for a nation of 350 million people?