• msage@programming.dev
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    21 hours ago

    Again: what agency do you have now?

    Capitalism leads to fascism, how does that make you feel?

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      20 hours ago

      I’ll take that’s a slip of the tongue and I’ll answer the question whether democracy leads to fascism, given that I’ve clearly stated I’m a socialist.

      I think it’s kinda bullshit to say that democracy hasn’t done amazing things for the human condition. In any given region, democracy will come and go, nothing lasts forever. But where and when it exists, science, human rights, new ideas, and new culture, will always follow. The fact that things might get worse if we give people agency, as in, they might choose ‘wrongly’ and give up their democracy, that is not a reason to stop trying, or to try to take that agency away from everyone, yourself included.