Why do so many leftists (especially /r/ anarchists) push the "le direct democracy" meme like it's actually not mob rule...

Wow, still no responses. Surprising.

Not everyone lives in burgerland, where I live voting is compulsory - not that it makes much difference, our politics is still retarded as hell just like any other bourgeois democracy. That aside, I've already stated that I phased it poorly.

You alienated your intended meaning from your actual phrasing.

Probably because the first two would require a different thread?

Saying what the great new alternative to democracy is is off topic for a thread about why democracy sucks? Please.

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Y'all democrats need Satan.

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Okay, that actually made me laugh, well done lenin-hat.

This thread is already a complete shitshow, hijacking it would be an improvement. Perhaps I'll start: what do you think of bordiga's proposal for technocratic administration of communist society?

A better analogy would be that you are advocating that people abstain from vaccines all together because they are imperfect and offering no alternative.

Correction. OP was a complete mess (just look at that shit). Should have been locked, and OP banned for 10 minutes as a warning. I saved (or hijacked, if you prefer) the thread at post no.4. Compared to OP everything so far has been a net improvement, and surprisingly on (hijacked) topic. As an unexpected bonus the thread even had keks.

I think of all variations of technocratic proposals as (intentionally, or due to being clouded by typically STEM ideology) misinterpreting or outright disregarding the problem posed by the basic organizational form of democracy.

Going with your analogy your "democratic vaccine" has no better success-rate than a vaccine filled with homeopathic "medicine" has. Sure, placebo shows up in statistics, but a strategy that prefers it, dogmatically accepts it, even, as "our best hope" to thinking about alternatives is laughable.