Suu Kyi 'should have resigned'

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finbar wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:45 pmBut it's a fair point, what are the limits of democracy?
Should we be able to vote to euthanase simpletons, for example?
It would mean I could unblock a few on here, LOL
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jmagic wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:26 pm On the other hand, a clear majority of the people of Myanmar support what the government did. So, democracy.
Yes indeed. I talk to many in my line of work and most say they regretted voting for her.
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finbar wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:45 pm
jmagic wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:26 pm On the other hand, a clear majority of the people of Myanmar support what the government did. So, democracy.
You have to question what information the 'majority of the people' were being fed, though it's quite possible they're all just a nasty bunch of murderous racists anyway.
But it's a fair point, what are the limits of democracy?
Should we be able to vote to euthanase simpletons, for example?
an example of the BS the military feeds the locals
Myanmar army fakes Rohingya photos in 'True News' book
YANGON: The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally", reads the caption.

The photo appears in a section of the book covering ethnic riots in Myanmar in the 1940s. The text says the image shows Buddhists murdered by Rohingya - members of a Muslim minority the book refers to as "Bengalis" to imply they are illegal immigrants.

But a Reuters examination of the photograph shows it was actually taken during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war, when hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis were killed by Pakistani troops.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/specia ... -news-book
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In China I Picked up an official account of what happened in Tiannanmen in 1989. Printed by the chinese government, in which they stated that " no one died in the square that night"
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canucklhead wrote: Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:35 pm In China I Picked up an official account of what happened in Tiannanmen in 1989. Printed by the chinese government, in which they stated that " no one died in the square that night"
Did they say if anyone died through the day ?
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that genius wrote: Fri Aug 31, 2018 8:15 am
jmagic wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:26 pm On the other hand, a clear majority of the people of Myanmar support what the government did. So, democracy.
One could add Hitler to that list.
Its easier to blame one man, or in this case, one woman.
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finbar wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:45 pm
jmagic wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:26 pm On the other hand, a clear majority of the people of Myanmar support what the government did. So, democracy.
You have to question what information the 'majority of the people' were being fed, though it's quite possible they're all just a nasty bunch of murderous racists anyway.
But it's a fair point, what are the limits of democracy?
Should we be able to vote to euthanase simpletons, for example?
Democracy is a morally flawed system. Two guys can vote to steal a third guy's house. Or a majority can choose to exterminate a minority. I'm just playing devil's advocate.
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'Democracy is a morally flawed system..."

It is much more than just a system, above all it is a state of mind.
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