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    DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

    When everybody agrees so perfectly. When conformity is so absolute. When dissent is so rare. It makes one suspicious.

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    When everybody agrees so perfectly. When conformity is so absolute. When dissent is so rare. It makes one suspicious.

    DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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      I remember going voting with my parents in the 80’s in communist Poland. Voting was mandatory, so you would get into trouble if you wouldn’t go. It also wasn’t private, so you basically had to show what you voted for before putting your ballot into the ballot box. On top of they there was only one party which you could vote for.

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        So practically a ritual. What’s the point of voting if there is only one candidate? Rhetorical question

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          To say you have elections.

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          The point is to pretend to the world that you are a democracy.

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          There are multiple candidates, but if elections are held in a one party state, they all belong to the same party or a party that is effectively under the dominating party’s control.

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        Is purple cosmos the Polish national flower?

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          No, I don’t think so.

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            Hmm. I heard you’ve got a lot of them tho

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      It makes me want to leave.

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        vote with your feet.

        I’ve been traveling for about fifteen years now, if you have any questions.

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          Sounds like you’d make a good AMA post

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      Sometimes it’s a good sign, at least in politics. The 99-1 Senate vote to kill the anti-AI-law ban of the latest bill was telling. Same goes for unanimous SCOTUS decisions. If both liberals and conservatives overwhelmingly agree on a thing, it’s almost certainly a good call.

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        The patriot act. The Iraq war.

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      While I agree with your scepticism initially, I worry that this is something a right wing lunatic would posture about Democrats.

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        That’s troubling logic.

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        to be entirely honest a world without Nazis would concern me, specifically because of the question “where did they go?”

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          I think that nazi is an expression of trauma, given form by propaganda.

          Take away the trauma and nazi disappears.

          Take away the propaganda and you get, I dunno, less organized bad behavior.

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