In the USA, they believe they are a democracy.
Unfortunately not enough educators stress that we are a Representative Republic.
The word has lost all meaning in recent generations, it is the political version of "literally"
Technically there are no democracies in the world that are run like the original Athenian democracy. But once you get larger than the size of a small town, direct democracy has proven unwieldy. With the internet direct democracy is more possible now, but to truly participate and make reasonable decisions, everyone would have to stay up to date on all the issues they are asked to vote on and very few people do that.
The US has some odd quirks that are not very democratic like the electoral college and two senators a state whether the state has 600,000 people or 39 million, but in general the US is a representative democracy like most of the functioning democracies in the world.
Yikes. And everyone's trying to stay on elon's good side to get invited to the next product reveal right? I shouldnt have come back here. Enjoy your bubble.
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@ohmman said, there are plenty of criticisms of Elon on this thread. The only ones that get quarantined are the overly political ones. I guess the moderators allow brushing up against politics as long as it isn't too political. (I hope my discussion about types of democracies above is acceptable.)
I can’t remember what establishment media character assassin phase we’re at with Elon? First every paper from the NYT all the way down put out a hit piece within a week of him announcing the Twitter acquisition. Then they tried to call him a racist (which apparently didn’t work because the NYT article accidentally demonstrated he wasn’t). Now we’re in the vague sexual harassment accusation from years ago phase. Next the headline will be that he’s homophonic and when you actually read the article it will be because he liked a South Park episode that referred to something as “gay”. It is amazing how this pattern keeps repeating and people are starting to see it for what it is.
At the end of the day the guy is a great American who tells the truth as he sees it and I’ll always respect a person like that even if I don’t agree with them 100% of the time. I could care less who he votes for and I support anyone who refers to their own controversy as Elongate.
Elon is obviously not racist. He left South Africa in part because he couldn't stand Apartheid and his father's support of it. He was influenced by many Science Fiction authors of the 50s-70s who were mostly anti-racist. In SF unless they are trying to make a point about racism, most future cultures are depicted as peacefully integrated.
The problem with Elon is that in some ways he's emotionally 12. He reminds me of Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory sometimes.
Elon is also very libertarian and in it's true form people are left to their own devices to fight their own battles. The concept has been abused by people who want to pick and choose from the theory and only apply it when they want to get away with something, but want to be draconian when someone is doing something they don't like.
I see this libertarian attitude in response to complaints about racism at the Fremont factory. He probably feels that the victims should stand up to the bullies and deal with it themselves or take the abuse and live with it.
I'm all for libertarianism when someone is doing something that isn't harming anyone else or putting anyone else at risk. It's nobody else's business. However we live in communities, many of them if you really look at it. And people are going to do things that hurt others. If someone is unable or unwilling to control their own behavior in those cases, than the community in some way needs to stop their behavior. In some cases that might be from peer pressure, but in others it might need to be some sort of enforcement.
Many libertarians seem to believe that if we just get rid of the rules, everyone will manage their own behavior and everything will be fine. But people don't work that way. Some people (a small percentage of the population, but enough to matter) like hurting others and even more people may not try to hurt others, but will end up doing so if somebody doesn't stop them.
Most humans are not mature enough to live in a society with other humans without some kind of structure of rules to keep their behavior acceptable. It's unfortunate, but that's how humans are and we need to live with the way things are, not just act like everyone is like what we want them to be.
Note I'm talking about the philosophy of libertarianism, not the political party.