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I know you're vegan. You just told me you're vegan. You told everyone you're vegan. /s

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You are not allowed to say certain personalities who cover some of this stuff on Hacker News, albeit from a little bit of a theatrical position, but it still does get to the heart of some of this stuff. This sheer nonsense. What this person is talking about is not a community. They want a club.

More evidence of tribalism, combined with exceptionally precise confessions running as whataboutisms

Pelagicaustral is on the money.

It would just be nice if people understood the difference between wanting a club with a gate versus a community. I am impressed, though. I never thought I’d see a vomit diarrhea load of bumper stickers, but a digital form at the end of the article.

It might as well have been vibe coded. Sloppy sloppy architecture.

You seem to overly generalize. Nothing I said was racist. But you sir need your eyes checked. And uncivil attitude.

According to YOU. What a very poor all or nothing statement. And the reader should never listen to someone who claims all or nothing here or there. Nope. Perhaps throw a bridle on your unbridled "kindly fuck off nuance" view.

Couple questions .... what is the author's point of origin and experience with "democracy" and/or "democracies"? I mention this as the founding principals of this Lottery thing are more or less "complaints" and not values or principals really. It is very slasdash and hollow.

But this is a fun thought experiment so lets .... move on.

Why *exactly* is democracy the absolute best form of govt known to mankind? You just kinda slip that in there which is a massive assumption. And exactly which democracy is best aside from the one proposed?

For that matter exactly WHO? and I do mean WHO says that democracies aren't working? Who the fuck has the balls to say that horseshit premise?

No one is saying that. Not seriously, anywhere. No one. That ultimately is the fatal flaw for this thought experiment.

There are fundamentally different value judgments from "European" "Democracies" vs US vs Asian as examples.

Lottery based is an interesting system but not really doable the way this site lays out.

3 years is too short to do anything; unless there is a relief value where a certain percentage (by lottery) of that year's cohort can do something critical in any representative form of govt. Incumbency.

You do in fact need a slowly revolving core of representatives who can do proper work over 2-5 terms max. Otherwise its a constant nut house with nothing getting done and not near enough permanence for medium to long term solutions over time.

At the end of the day for me -- I do not think the people behind this thought this through and it shows. There isnt serious skull sweat in this thing and I think it undermines an interesting concept. I also think just because you are frustrated in democratic processes -- you are the problem.

Apathy is a choice. Ignorance is a choice. Frustration is a choice.

If you do not like your form of govt -- move, make peace with it or roll up them sleeves and get busy participating.

uh-huh. IF there is; Hamas carries the weight. Not Israel. Take a momma bear's cub away and see the momma bear's claws. Duh.

this is the same drack which appears endlessly on Linkedin and bluesky and lil blogs. Guess whatelse is pushed? the same drack in a Newsletter! Not interested and Hacker news is for so much better content than this horseshit.