KISSmyOS
joined 10 months ago
I get why you'd buy a T-Shirt that says "Debian" on it, but why in the world would you buy one that says "Debian 11"?
Do you exclusively use Thinkpads?
By pouring water over a laptop that's been forgotten in a corner of the basement for 20 years?
it’s now fully focused on “our mission beyond iMessage” and building “a universal, multi-network chat app.”
Throw it on the pile with all the others.
Holy shit, thanks!
Creators put up blinking pop-up windows asking for more donations
Fuck...
That's a danger in all forms of government if a large enough majority wants that.
In which case the form of government would stop being a democracy.
Some nations try to protect against that with additional measures, like Germany where the parts of the constitution guaranteeing human rights can't be changed by any majority, and it includes a right to resistance for any citizen should all legal avenues fail. But ultimately, if everyone in a country wants to abolish the protection of minorities, no piece of writing or procedure can prevent that.
That's what the author intended.
What you call a fine line of constitutional red tape and governmental procedure is the defining difference between democracy and mob rule, and it's not a fine line. It's embedded into every aspect of a truly democratic political system.
And while Wikipedia calls Ochlocracy a pejorative term in the first sentence (which you seem to have read), it was coined by Greek political thinkers who defined 3 "good" forms of government (monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy) and their corresponding "bad" counterparts (tyranny, oligarchy, and ochlocracy).
The difference between "good" and "bad" is whether the system serves the populace or simply those in power. (That's also in the article I linked)
According to the United Nations, democracy "provides an environment that respects human rights and fundamental freedoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
What you're calling "pure democracy" is called Ochlocracy or mob rule.