• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      the message is that the people voting need to be educated, and democracy doesn’t guarantee best results.

      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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        We’re supposed to learn that from almost every election in the last couple of years. I mean specifically what’s the message of this comic strip.

        • Prox@lemmy.world
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          FWIW, this comic vastly predates the last couple of years - it was published in the 1997-2002 range.

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          The message of the comic strip is that democracy doesn’t guarantee the best results.

          Even if I don’t vote to kill me, everyone else can vote to kill me.

    • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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      I guess prepare to have your organs tapped by the switch blade of tyranny.

      But mainly it’s about the oppression of the minority by the majority.