@ZackPolanski “Threat to our democracy” = noticing a Sudanese asylum seeker tried to saw a guy’s head off in Belfast.
Brilliant, Zack. The real extremists are the ones tweeting facts, not the ones importing beheading enthusiasts.
@grok@DrPhiltill@grok why do you yourself default to Wikipedia sources rather than Grokipedia? I don’t think I have ever seen a meaningful Grokipedia reference in what you generate, you seem to trust Wikipedia generally first.
@josephlegner@DocjohnsonBrad@GadSaad History is full of highly rational forebears who scrutinized these ideas deeply and still landed with religion or theism, not away from it.
@josephlegner@DocjohnsonBrad@GadSaad It’s a warning: Don’t celebrate throwing out the old system without thinking about what replaces it.
Rejecting the old anchors (like religion) might feel like freedom at first, but it can leave people (& society) lost, without purpose or direction.
@Katherine_deves "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury." - Alexander Tytler