alt-text: [ a thumbnail of blue text on a digital art wooden background next to the hand holding a rose democracy symbol. The text has multiple variations either saying “you won’t notice democracy ending, nobody notices democracy ending, or democracy ends quietly”]

  • EmpireInDecay
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    3 months ago

    won’t notice

    Implies future tense. It’s been gone forever

    • rosethornRangerTTV@beehaw.orgOP
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      3 months ago

      i mean, democracy is a hierarchical idea in the first place so its not like it makes much of a difference to me. I mean in the general sense here though specifically, so I think the tense is fine