PugJesus@piefed.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoThe curse of knowing conservatives in any capacitymedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square40linkfedilinkarrow-up1520arrow-down16
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minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·3 months agoAnd the best argument for democracy is a 5 minute conversation about every other form of government.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 months agoTo paraphrase Churchill. Democracy is a terrible system of government, shame it’s the best we’ve created thus far.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoWow, that’s one of the worst paraphrasings of his quote that I’ve ever seen. To paraphrase Socrates, The only true wisdom is you’re dumb.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoYet both my shit paraphrase and your shit paraphrase hold closer to the actual intent of the quotes than what people often imply with actual quotes. Like when preachers cherry pick the Bible or that one Tolkien quote about allegory.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThat we’ve tried so far… Don’t lose hope. There still may be better options yet to come.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·3 months agoOnly that we have republics and not democracies.
And the best argument for democracy is a 5 minute conversation about every other form of government.
Also true
To paraphrase Churchill. Democracy is a terrible system of government, shame it’s the best we’ve created thus far.
Wow, that’s one of the worst paraphrasings of his quote that I’ve ever seen.
To paraphrase Socrates, The only true wisdom is you’re dumb.
Yet both my shit paraphrase and your shit paraphrase hold closer to the actual intent of the quotes than what people often imply with actual quotes. Like when preachers cherry pick the Bible or that one Tolkien quote about allegory.
That we’ve tried so far…
Don’t lose hope. There still may be better options yet to come.
Only that we have republics and not democracies.