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From: David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:27:38 -0000 (UTC)
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Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> wrote in 
news:slrnvh7prm.2v6gn.lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com:

> On 2024-10-19, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> Scale is the real problem. A state like the US with over 300 million 
>> people, half of which would like to see the other half hanging from lamp 
>> poles,  is impossible without a highly coercive government.
> 
> Not the number of people - the divisiveness. Which may come from
> inequality, ethnicities or racism. Yugoslavia is the textbook example.
> Fell completely apart once the iron fist softened just a little bit.
> 
> But ... "it can't happen here!"

Just because there appears to be a problem as expressed by all the bots 
doesn't mean that we actually have those views.  We actually talk to one 
another and can find out why someone who disagrees with us has that 
viewpoint.