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by fraggleysun 282 days ago
Could you please clarify your statement?
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ethbr1 282 days ago
>> Attacks on free speech - like social media censorship or bans - makes democracy not possible.

GP stated this.

Parent replied with a list of scenarios where violence created progress, albeit none of which featured universal democracy before the violence.

IOW, they are loudly agreeing with each other.

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komali2 282 days ago
At least in the case of the USA, then, there's still no universal democracy. Corporations have far more powerful and influence, in basically every election you can only vote for a neoliberal, and plenty of people get disenfranchised.
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ethbr1 282 days ago
It seems like bike-shedding to equate complete lack of franchise with vote dilution.

They are very different levels of democratic access.

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