PugJesus@piefed.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoThe curse of knowing conservatives in any capacitymedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1518arrow-down15
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minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down1·5 days agoAnd the best argument for democracy is a 5 minute conversation about every other form of government.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 days 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-up1·5 days 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-up1·5 days 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-up1·5 days agoThat we’ve tried so far… Don’t lose hope. There still may be better options yet to come.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·5 days 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.
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.
Also true
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.