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When everybody agrees so perfectly. When conformity is so absolute. When dissent is so rare. It makes one suspicious.

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DominatorX1@thelemmy.club⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember going voting with my parents in the 80's in communist Poland. Voting was mandatory, so you would get into trouble if you wouldn't go. It also wasn't private, so you basically had to show what you voted for before putting your ballot into the ballot box. On top of they there was only one party which you could vote for.

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    • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So practically a ritual. What’s the point of voting if there is only one candidate? Rhetorical question

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      • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The point is to pretend to the world that you are a democracy.

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      • aski3252@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There are multiple candidates, but if elections are held in a one party state, they all belong to the same party or a party that is effectively under the dominating party’s control.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        To say you have elections.

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    • DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Is purple cosmos the Polish national flower?

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      • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No, I don't think so.

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  • pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It makes me want to leave.

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    • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      vote with your feet.

      I’ve been traveling for about fifteen years now, if you have any questions.

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      • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sounds like you’d make a good AMA post

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  • lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image Image

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    While I agree with your scepticism initially, I worry that this is something a right wing lunatic would posture about Democrats.

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    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      to be entirely honest a world without Nazis would concern me, specifically because of the question “where did they go?”

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      • DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think that nazi is an expression of trauma, given form by propaganda.

        Take away the trauma and nazi disappears.

        Take away the propaganda and… I dunno, less organized bad behavior.

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    • DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s troubling logic.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sometimes it’s a good sign, at least in politics. The 99-1 Senate vote to kill the anti-AI-law ban of the latest bill was telling. Same goes for unanimous SCOTUS decisions. If both liberals and conservatives overwhelmingly agree on a thing, it’s almost certainly a good call.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The patriot act. The Iraq war.

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