We can't do anything to resist.

In Switzerland you guys have the Veto Power and you could reject this. The EU is undemocratic to the bone... 

 What does this mean? 

 We can do it now, individual by individual, step by step.

We have Bitcoin, we have Nostr, we have a private way to unite. It doesn't matter if we do it in our lifetimes or not. What matters is that we take small steps in this direction.

What alternative is there? Join the movement. Feel free to ask me anything.

https://thedemocracyupgrade.org/ 

 Thanks very much for your comment! Very kind. In regards to your question:

What's the alternative to real democracy? What's the other better system? What's the alternative to the specific 7 Swiss democratic tools proposed there on the site? 

I'm asking honestly because I haven't found anything better. And I'm always looking for better. 

 Yeah, the randomized ideas of Hayek are pure theory. I prefer pragmatic, tried and tested stuff. The social contract society is what they have in Switzerland ever since the Landsgemeinde was institutionally created in the 1300's and then it bubbled up into stuff like the Optional Referendum (People's Veto Power).

Have you checked the Swiss model? https://thedemocracyupgrade.org/quickguide/#switzerlandandthe7democratictools

Please take a look at and consider these tools. If you want to talk more about I would love to :) always available for conversations! 

 That would be awesome, I'm always available to talk if you want to exchange some ideas on this or other subjects. Cheers! 

 What is the Citadel here, in this case? 

 Absolutely 

 Reddit also has this problem and it's very frustrating.

Also by the way, there's already some AI client-based algorithms for filtering content right? 

 Okay, so the way I see it, it's about you and the people that believe in this creating the alternative we want to see the world.

Our task is not to convince other people. Our task is to be the change that we want to see in the world. Creating the better alternative.

What is it that you want to see in the world?

For me it's several things but at least one that I've worked really hard is actually defining democracy (and the political model of countries in general). For me, the biggest conclusion for all the mess we're living in is because the people were actually never had the legal and political possibility of saying no and reverting specific laws. In Switzerland they've solved that (People's Veto Power), and that's why Switzerland is probably one of the best countries in the world.

I've compiled the Swiss democratic system into 7 principles (#swissdem7) and this will allow people to better communicate the systems in the new Governance systems that we create. 

With #bitcoin we will be able to recreate our change/systems at any scale globally in the world.

What are waiting for really? Why aren't we co-founding a new Internet Country together? Who wants to co-found a new Internet Country together? 

 Thank you kind sir! Very happy to be here.

I'm a big proponent of Web3 paradigm and would love to work with people in order to create some sort of community in that direction.

For now though it's just great to not be censored and to know that your content exists forever due to the npub architecture.

Great stuff! 

 Well, it seems like the idea is to go to war with Russia...

Europe is a mess. If only we had real democracy none of this would ever happen. 

 

 Better than Blockchain governance is real democracy like in Switzerland. https://thedemocracyupgrade.org 

 Real democracy (Swiss democracy) is the way. In Switzerland this would have gone to referendum and the people would have voted no. 

 Their point about real democracy was that it suffered tyranny of the majority. But the thing is, the system they choose is the one that suffers from this problem. The federal government will eventually eat the US, with time. 

Swiss democracy is the only system with no tyranny of the majority. It has referendums every 3 months and thus no group can ever win constantly. There's no tyranny of the majority because there's no majority ever. You win today, you lose tomorrow, and on it goes.

- 7 Principles of the Swiss Democracy
	- People's Veto Power (power to deny any law at any level)
	- Federalism (3 referendum levels, national, regional and local)
	- Open Lists (a.k.a vote in the people, not parties)
	- People's Initiatives (a.k.a let the people start new laws)
	- The Constitutional Referendums (a.k.a raising taxes always triggers a referendum)
	- Public Recalls (everybody can be removed from political positions)
	- Mixed Executive Government (parties work together) 

 Ah, thank you good sir, very kind :) 

I did create a wallet now, hopefully it works! 

 When exactly, in the US?

There's no tyranny of the majority in Switzerland because of the tools listed above. In other words:

Optional Referendums: Citizens can reject laws passed by the government through petition.
Federalism: Power is decentralized, letting regions make their own decisions.
Open Lists and Panachage: Voters pick individual candidates, not just parties.
People Initiatives: Citizens can propose new laws with enough signatures.

And in another more pragmatic way:

There is no clear majority because we have about 14 referendums every three months, totaling 60 per year at all levels: national, cantonal, and municipal. These cover very specific topics, such as whether to build a statue for X in our municipality, invest in nuclear energy in our state, allow states to define education infrastructure, or veto a specific law. In other words, the topics are so specific that they completely bypass the usual left-right, group-focused politics. You might win one referendum but lose another. No single group ever dominates because the people interested in referendums are always changing. 

 Yes, there are already some states in the US that have these tools. 

In terms of scalability I don't think there's any problems at all. These tools are blind to numbers, it's just a matter of adapting the signature triggers to the population of the US.

Regarding adoption, it's the same as every other political change, bottom-up and top-down. I'm a big proponent of bottom-up first, i.e implementing the 7 Swiss political tools listed above in a municipality somewhere, sharing the results with the world on the internet and scaling from there. That's the whole idea why I've created the website, Discords, etc, to get the movement going.

Are you interested in this kind of ideas? I honestly don't see any better alternatives to this. The alternative is just more polarization, conflict and wars, in the really dumb, brute force system that we have today. 

 eheh, I am just "shooting the poop" too regardless :D

But yeah, I'm also tired of the status quo and really believe we have to elevate the state of discourse, refining our political systems using all the available technological tools such as blockchains, Bitcoin, Web3, etc, etc. 

What tools are we missing to truly bring the change we want to bring to the world? You know what I mean? 

 A government will still build the roads but it's going to be a very efficient government run with Swiss democracy and referendums every 3 months on a national, regional and local level.