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That's not how democracy works. That's how sheep farming works.
by akimball 4y ago
That's not how democracy works. That's how sheep farming works.
- cududa 4y agoNo, that’s called immature ideological purity. Like it or not, state secrets are a necessary function of any civilization.
- CamperBob2 4y agoIf you don't tell people the truth about something like this, they will cheerfully make something up and accept it as truth. That's not a "necessary function of any civilization," that's dereliction of duty to the people who elected the leaders.
- pixl97 4y agoAnd if you do tell the truth your enemy has a nice cheap information gathering network at their disposal. Hell, they'll likely just make up their own bullshit and post it online anyway and say our government is lying.
- pohl 4y agoPeople do that when you do tell them the truth.
- CamperBob2 4y agoBe that as it may, I don't see how I can be expected to make good decisions as a voter in a democracy without good information.
- thrill 4y agoEven if you do tell people the "truth", they'll cheerfully make anything up that gets more clicks.
- pyuser583 4y agoI’m pretty sure Dana Scully said the same thing in one of the early seasons of X-Files.