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user-inactivated · 2728 days ago · link · · parent · post: Shake it up. Offer up one somewhat unpopular opinion that you hold.
All right. Here's one. Democracy has a fatal flaw in that you can always vote yourself more things. You can leverage the future against the present because you won't be there to pay the bill. You can spend other people's money because the government says that it's the will of the people and they will jail you if you don't play along. You can steal as much as you want from everyone else as long as you convince everyone else that you're doing it for altruistic reasons, even when those reasons are just as often to kill strangers in foreign lands and jail people for silly crimes like drugs as they are to house the poor and feed the needy.