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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 16:20:07 JST Aral Balkan

   Call me an idealist but I feel democracy should be about more than frantically voting against fascism until succumbing to it.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 16:23:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     In fact, controversial opinion, you shouldn’t be able to vote for fascism. Any democracy where fascists can get elected is a democracy placeholding for fascism. Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance.

   • Bruno Girin (brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 16:53:22 JST Bruno Girin

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     @aral the Wikipedia article on democracy is clear that elections constitute a "minimalist definition of democracy": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

     A democracy without protection against fascism is an unstable equilibrium: it only works as far as nobody pulls it away from equilibrium.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 16:54:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     • butterbutt

     @butterbutt There’s always one.

   • butterbutt (butterbutt@social.thisisjoes.site)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 16:54:04 JST butterbutt

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     @aral we should ban voting altogether. denocracy is gay

   • DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ (danslerush@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 16:55:21 JST DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ

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     @aral Exactly! I like the view that tolerance shouldn't be an absolute ethical value but a social contract: if you don't subscribe to it as a fascist, then you don't have to benefit from it. I think Popper theorised it much better than I did, but that's the idea. 🤔