currently reading through the comic, and its really great, but im confused as to why the immortal and a bunch of other heroes are trying to stop rex’s control over the usa (and maybe the entire world? but thats not been totally clarified yet). Rex’s way of doing things really isnt very different to the way that government works all over the world already, and from the looks of things, he’s doing it better. The government is already an organisation that operates above the people it governs and controls their lives, and people already dont get much of a say in how that governing is done. We have elections, sure, but thats just representative and is just choosing whoever is the most powerful person in a given country, but we dont really have a lot of agency in exactly what that person does after they are elected. and as for killing a lot of heroes, any other government would have done the same thing if people tried to rise up against them. it just seems to me that if the goal of the resistance is just to go back to how it was before, all they are really doing it making things worse. I mean, immortal was literally abe linclon, he should know how this stuff works. All that being said, i havent fully finished the arc just yet, so maybe im wrong about a few things.

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    10 months ago

    we dont have democracy. we have representation. true democracy is direct democracy, and no country in the world currently operates under that model

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      10 months ago

      actually, thats not totally true. places like Rojava in syria and the regions of mexico under the control of the zapatistas have a lot of directly democratic elements.

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      10 months ago

      You had to put the word “direct” in front of your “true” democracy because it is actually just a type of democracy. The most common form of democracy is “representative” democracy, which is (surprisingly?) not the same thing as despotism