Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:09:57 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <2pkehjtui09t0e69ir03bl0fdk861hnj9c@4ax.com> <0rgghj5reoqn4qm6nr5hpbv6f90mf4b0dh@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:09:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7e279bf5dc7f6248dd844e009da4ae4e"; logging-data="3278658"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+8KONrNdFPVVS7uejdTDH/" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xgJG6Tbnr1MvI0CQMPZmxMCCgY0= Bytes: 2201 On 2024-10-23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On 23 Oct 2024 01:31:47 GMT, rbowman wrote: > >> That's the best the US can do? 330+ million people and that's it? > > All the good democracies offer voters a realistic choice of more than two > parties to pick from. Name one of these "good" democracies. And thank goodness the United States is a Republic and not a Democracy. (Look it up, "genius.") > And those running for election are not the ones running the election. The ones running the elections are the ones screwing with the electronic voting machines. -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien