I was going to tell him I’m very much enjoying both his utopian “surely giving everybody a veto would work out” and dystopian “otherwise a man in a high tower razes disadvantaged communities by his ruler and his pen” visions. But he’s got replies disabled, the little dictator.

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Why are the same people who say that they're tired of seeing people sleep rough also regularly invoke democracy to keep places where we could reasonably house those folks indoors... far away from them?

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Why is Laurelhurst getting an inordinate amount of clout when it comes to where a medivac helicopter to a *children's hospital* has to divert because of noise complaints (Seattle Childrens' politics and especially labor record aside)

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By no reasonable definition do people in Amsterdam live under a dictatorship. The idea that democracy is in any way reliant upon a million veto points for public transit is insane.

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this is what voting is for? i do not know why we would give people outsized influence simply because they have time to attend meetings in the middle of the day.

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