☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 day agoYou may not like it, but this is what peak democracy looks likelemmy.mlimagemessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down160
arrow-up173arrow-down1imageYou may not like it, but this is what peak democracy looks likelemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square125fedilink
minus-squareDigit@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 hours agoWhat are these percentages? The percent of the vote they got into power by? Lets re-display that not as a percent of merely the turnout, nor merely the electorate, but as a percentage of the entire populations they purport to represent.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·2 hours agoThey are approval ratings, not electoral results. Bourgeois democracy regularly fails to put popular candidates in power.
minus-squareDigit@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoif they are approval ratings then doesn’t hold elections is not like the others in more than the immediately obvious way.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 hours agoI didn’t make the meme, I am conveying the intent and explaining the numbers.
What are these percentages?
The percent of the vote they got into power by?
Lets re-display that not as a percent of merely the turnout, nor merely the electorate, but as a percentage of the entire populations they purport to represent.
They are approval ratings, not electoral results. Bourgeois democracy regularly fails to put popular candidates in power.
if they are
then
is not like the others in more than the immediately obvious way.
I didn’t make the meme, I am conveying the intent and explaining the numbers.