• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    9 months ago

    You’re not “explaining” anything, clown, you’re making a vague reference to a classical work.

    You’re also calling the people too stupid to govern themselves and hoping no one else has read enough of the two most famous and most read philosophers in the world to call you on your bullshit.

    Go cry into your unpainted marble statue pfp about it happening anyways.

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        9 months ago

        Okay internet faux intellectual fascist whose version of explaining The Republic’s political philosophy is “read Wikipedia” and "the problem with democracy is the people are morons, so we’ve gotta figure out how to protect the idiot plebs from themselves!"👍

        What’s your favorite IQ benchmark for forced sterilization btw?

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          the problem with democracy is the people are morons, so we’ve gotta figure out how to protect the idiot plebs from themselves

          That is a problem. Representative democracy in our federal republic (the US) aims to mitigate the “tyranny of the dull mob”.

          What we need (in the US) is to tweak term limits, introduce ranked voting, and have more direct-vote referendums to help check the power imbalance of plutocrats.

          We don’t need to throw out the Socratic Method.