Post #1339728

2026-03-26 08:05 UTC

@smallcircles @chatcontrol @EUCommission – > Is it still a democracy if you just keep redoing the vote until you get the outcome you want? This. While exceptions to this need specifying, repeat votes should be considered undemocratic.

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@smallcircles@social.coop 2026-03-26 08:24

@j9t @chatcontrol @EUCommission Generally speaking the pursuit of creating "The European Union of Mistrust" isn't the way to go. Sure, #governments have an urge for control in hypercomplex modern and chaotic #society. But just throwing #tech at it, is NOT the way, and will only backfire. Look only how much much 'safer' the world has become with all the advanced tech we already dumped into society, right? If we want to build harmonious and peaceful societies that have the right conditions for #democracy to flourish, we better look at fostering social #cohesion between people. Focus on people's virtues, rather than assume vices in a distrust-first society. "Distrust-first" is the environment of #hypercapitalism, where vices thrive and unfairly advantage people who wield them more. #Trust is the currency that allows society to progress, and #trustworthiness is upon which it can stand.

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