Why do some of the questions asked in this sub make it sound like the OP’s first day as a human being?
I don’t know, but the way they’re answered often ends up being very interesting.
Why do you dance around like this instead of just answering the question?
Homie had his shit removed and now its everyone’s problem.
Actually somebody else got their shit removed and I wax philosophical on their behalf. I’m sophisticated that way.
Democratic dictatorship of the proletariat
???
Do I get to be the dictator?
Democracy, in the hands of the proletariat, not the bourgeoisie. The government should oppress the capitalist class and uplift the proletariat, political power should be stripped from capitalists and lay with the proletariat instead. This is the “dictatorship of the proletariat” over the bourgeoisie.
Who would realistically say dictator? Putin?
Every moderator on lemmy, apparently.
Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.
IRL? Democracy. It sucks, but it’s better than everything else. I do, however, wish there were better laws forcing media to be locally owned, and bound to be truthful. And some way to keep late stage capitalism’s hand off the scales.
(first, thank you for achieving the straightforwardness that has escaped so many others here)
What is the difference between online society and irl society that makes dictatorship preferable in one and democracy preferable in the other?
Is it the size? The complexity?
Online spaces are limitless, basically. If you don’t like living under someone else’s rules it’s dead easy to spin up your own space with your own rules. The dictatorship-ness of these virtual spaces keeps then semi-civil and on-topic. Ideally, at least. We are talking spherical cows here, obvs.
Real life spaces, not so easy to spin up your own country. So we have to use a political system that (on paper, at least) caters to the majority without stepping on the minorities too much.
Democracy, like mostly anyone. But it depends on anyone’s conception, here.
If the dictator was you, might that make dictatorship more attractive?
Hmm, maybe… but tbh, I’m more of a collective leadership thing myself, since I can’t always rely on myself all the time, even in personal life so 🤷
Democracty, if people do bad choices it’s the people problem not democracy . If the leader of the dictatorship is bad nothing can be done
How about for lemmy communities?
Same
Everybody says democracy but given the opportunity to be dictator they will choose dictatorship every time.
Is that a realistic assessment?
No.
Ten-thousand Lemmy and Reddit moderators say otherwise.
Dictatorship by a wide margin. Why should the parliament squabble over a law for months, possibly years, when under a dictatorship said law could be enacted instantly? Also with democracy every politician just thinks about getting elected, not the actual long-term needs of the country.
According to election theory, a dictatorship is the only perfectly fair voting system: the only voter wins the vote, every time.
