The revolution is inevitable. we need to make it opensource!

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Bad news? We don't want the revolution of 20th century Russia, we live on 21st century earth!
Better yet, lets do away with the christian calendar and do 1st century post capitalism.

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Direct democracy - Wikipedia

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Magiilaro

Voting on opinions is a very bad idea, because opinions doesn't have to be backed by facts or reality.
I can have the opinion that it should be law that all people should wear green socks on Tuesdays.
Should there really be a vote about a opinion like that?
If yes, then then floodgates will be open and the system gets overwhelmed with input to vote on.
If not, who decides what kind of opinion is valid to vote one, and how can a misuse of that power be prevented.

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I think it would not work, people covertly sabotage any drift toward a utopia because they do not want it, it is numbingly dull. Beyond wealth or ease of life or sexual freedom what people really want at a deep and profound level is to have something to complain about. The whole of Reddit is just a mechanism for that, as is all social media, as is the internet, the purpose of language and life. People want to gaze over at one section of society and say look at those fucking idiots I am so much better than them. Then they want to tell people how much better they are and have other people agree, and that sort of thing is banned in utopia.

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also known as philosophy

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Not with that aditude no.

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Easy fix: A very violent sport, to ease the peoples hunger for discord. On a volontary basis of course. Preferably something with roller skates and swords.

Also introduce Kevin into the system. People can complain about him. A common enemy brings people together and Kevin is a really big asshohle.

Now everybody's happy. Except for Kevin of course. But that's the price you have to pay for utopia.

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I honestly think period will keto trying to sell capitalism to make themselves rich in the same way time shares still get sold when everybody knows they're scams.

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That's what it is now. To much bloat, a stupid subscription model. It runs very slow while the machine runs way to hot.

Applecracy would at least be aesthetically pleasing. Imagine the dope uniforms that everybody would have to wear.

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No. But I invented the "eternal Tarantino of a spotless toe"

Its mescal served in a nice worn lady shoe with a marachino cherry on top.

I think wiki how was invented by disney.

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Hugo Boss maybe!

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Just replace the skull with the apple and voila.

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I've thought of this as well.

Git is a great version control and distributed collaboration system.

Just need to use it to manage a constitution, a bill of rights, and a legal framework. Legal code instead of computer code.

Technologically super easy. Convincing a government to switch to a new constitution is hard. We just need an amendment that amends the amendment process into a pull request approval.

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We don't need to convince the government. We just ignore it until it goes away. If it does not dissolve on its own, we just put it in a submarine.

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We could call that sport the Games for Hunger or something like that and the men could all be running. Also we would need populations of Kevins, perhaps decanted for the purpose because what people really miss in a utopia is the bullying. Not full-on to the death school type bullying, we are all too refined now for that and understand everyone is a sensitive frozen water crystal and any slightly offended sensibility is mortal injury to us all, and just very disappointing. No, what we crave is the no chinned, anonymous and slightly sarcastic bullying of a fully mature mind. Laughing at the opinions of others from our hide shacks and downvoting them in wank-gangs until they yield and go outside, in the air - the true defeat of the internetian. I have forgot the point I was trying to make so I'll stop, but I think the key idea is to reply 'sorry lady but' to any post you know is written by a boy adult.

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No just one Kevin. If you have more than one to hate on its antikevinism and that's just racism without the extra steps.

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The utopia would spread across the entire globe filling every space humanity chose to live, like pouring proprietary cake mix into a fun shaped cake tin made with universal uniqueness to show your love, so a single Kevin would be overworked. He would need to be scaled up as the revolution proceeded. Even Lenin understood this, its why he had that kid with Yoko.

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I've been thinking about this concept for quite a long time now.

4 years election cicles had sense in the XVIII century when the fastest way of communicating was letter delivered by horse.

But with internet it makes no sense that old fashioned system.

Forget about elections every 4 years, forget about having an official month of political campaigns that decide the fate of the country for 4 years, and the 4 years of the president doing whatever they want without consequences.

We have the technology to make a direct democracy. Every citizen should be able to vote on any issue or who is their representative at any point of time.

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Why not. A good system should be one that it's easy and cheap to put a vote out. If the voting you put on its ridiculous, people simply wont vote it and that's it

It's not like that doesn't existe now. I don't know in the US, but in most european countries and in the european union itself people can try to raise a vote on anything, they just have to be backed up by X number of people.

Just make that easier, 100% online, and instead of sparking a debate of representatives, if the thing had enough support an online referendum is held and if people vote hes it automatically become law.

I don't really see an issue.

We don't have this already only for one reason. The people that would need to allow this (the representatives) would be the ones that would be jobless and powerless if direct democracy where to be implemented, so they won't.

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The elections we have nowadays are already manipulated that way, so there is not a change on that regard.

People should not need to vote on every issue, you should be able to still delegate on a representative. But if on some things you don't agree with your representative you should be able to vote it by your own way.

I remember a proposal someone made a long time ago. About a voting system where every delegate have a "power of vote" and by default is 100% percent. But whenever a voting is made in a representative chamber the vote is also open online. And people's vote would rest value from the representatives votes. So if it's a matter where a lot of people cares and vote directly the people's vote would decide. If people don't care and don't vote the representatives vote would have more power and they would decide.

I thought it was very interesting.