Your wife is using more than 12hours of screentime away from an outlet everyday?

Because nobody who isn’t sleeping next to an outlet is using their phone for more than 12 hours a day

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The phone only really needs 12 hrs of battery life

My friend would shake my entire car when doing this, shit was hilarious

This also brought back highschool memories of separating our desks so them shaking their leg wouldn’t shake my desk

How is this any different from not having a steam deck and having to share the one PC?

I feel like the answer to every post on these sorts of communities is “you need to have a responsible conversation about boundaries with all parties involved”

Did people not learn this as kids?

Yeah we just disagree. I’m not gonna pretend I’m not more authoritarian than some people. I am very much in favour of a strong powerful government over a week one. And I do think that participation isn’t universal and should be limited. I’m pretty confident in saying that most people agree on some level. Every democracy today has a minimum voting age, it’s common for criminals not to be able to vote, citizenship is a requirement. All of these things can be viewed as authoritarian and elitist but i think that’s okay and governments are better off for it.

What is the difference

I’ll preface by stating that I’m not an American.

I think society is too interconnected and any decision in any area could be argued to have an effect on the entire population. I also think it’s good to have competent people in positions of leadership. I don’t think that most people are capable of choosing who is well suited for a given task. In that sense I somewhat agree with what you said here “people affected by a given decision (and only those people) are the ones who make the decision” though I believe I’m arriving at this conclusion from a different perspective than you. I would also point out that in both cases it is inherently less democratic than the current us government (as in less people are given more power) though I think this is partially desirable since a true perfect democracy won’t select who is most capable, but who is more popular.

Welcome to leftist sm

Why are these things anti democratic? If you want to go down this path you first need to establish a clear definition for what is and isn’t anti democratic. Is a doctor anti democratic because he wasn’t elected by popular vote? The supreme court is appointed by the current sitting (democratically elected) president. Should every government position require a nation wide popular vote? Is that really the only way to have a democracy?

Uhhhh, I don’t think a document that outlines the basis for a type of democracy is anti democratic. There are plenty of things wrong with it though, maybe talk about those parts instead to build a stronger case against the constitution

Man sometimes I think what even is the point of stating my name, it’s right there in my email address