npub1mmfwxp0jkw6un7hf75k0p8kpemm4smau2c4m8ea2w7r7v52lhjusx4eknq (npub1mmf…eknq) npub1lfrwuv98uxsrnq7ghvl03hetm9lqlkhwdcsk6wl3rrgjaqa5g2jsk53tl9 (npub1lfr…3tl9) all over the world, 'democratic' systems are offering us the opportunity to vote for utterly appalling and despicable people in order to keep out still worse people. As #Biden is in the US, so #Starmer is in the UK.
If we accept, we make ourselves complicit; if we refuse, we absolutely do share in the responsibility for the worse.
But I think the only ethical thing to do is say, en masse, "No, we will not play this game."
Western democracy is broken.
Simon Brooke /
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2024-03-03 14:46:03
in reply to nevent1q…6n35
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2024-03-03 14:46:03Event JSON
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