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  1. #Datacenters #AI #Backlash I guess the owners of the #US are slowly waking up to the reality that the people are fed up with all the garbage going on…

    Ay, yo, people #voxpopuli, you have the power… step on the toes of those nepo oligarchs and show them who has the say… :awesome: ✨ 👍 #pitchforks

    After pitchforks, the guillotines come… 🤷 It is better to share and quell the people's anger before they come with guillotines.

  2. A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

    He had not learned that the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would have to oppress the former; and that, if there is a moral principle at stake, the saying that the voice of the people is the voice of God may be quite as untrue, and do quite as much mischief, as the old theory of the divine right of kings. The distinguishing feature of our American governmental system is the freedom of the individual; it is quite as important to prevent his being oppressed by many men as it is to save him from the tyranny of one.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Thomas Hart Benton, ch. 6 (1886)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/2…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #autonomy #civilrights #democracy #freedom #individual #liberty #majority #personalfreedom #tyranny #tyrannyofthemajority #voxpopuli

  3. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Those who believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God may infer that any unusual opinion or peculiar taste is almost a form of impiety, and is to be viewed as a culpable rebellion against the legitimate authority of the herd. This will only be avoided if liberty is as much valued as democracy, and it is realized that a society in which each is the slave of all is only a little better than one in which each is the slave of a despot. There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to make a good society.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Lecture (1949-01-16), “The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 4, BBC Radio

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/837…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #authority #conformity #democracy #dissent #equality #freedom #freedomofthought #herd #heterodoxy #liberty #majority #mob #popularopinion #slavery #tyrannyofthemajority #wethepeople #voxpopuli

  4. #Schrödingers #Khamenei 🤔

    Btw my motto is sic semper tyrannis. This applies also to #Trump, #Netanyahu and co. 🤷 Don't be a monstrous barbarian to your people or to other countries' people… ✊ #VoxPopuli 🔥

  5. Tochter am Abendbrottisch, als meine Frau und ich uns, über die Rentenpolitik unterhalten haben:
    "Warum gehen nicht alle die, die ihre Rente besser wollen zu Fritze und jagen den weg?"
    "Mit Fackeln und Mistgabeln"... den Kommentar konnte ich mir kaum verkneifen. Irgendwie liegt der Duft der Revolution in der Luft :D ...
    Der Geist des Ausdruckes #VoxPopuli sollte wieder in die Köpfe unserer Politiker zurückkehren. Wachstum ist nicht das höchste Gut unserer Gesellschaft!