#majority rule

[championoftheoppressed]

The Orville episode "Majority Rule" came out in 2017, and it honestly only gets more terrifyingly relevant with time.

This planet is a true absolute democracy -- everything is determined by popular vote.

Even individual people get upvotes and downvotes, and they're permanent.

You can get a downvote for any reason, even if it was something entirely unintentional.

If you get enough downvotes, you're arrested and possibly even lobotomized. In the end, the crew has to save their crew member from the planet's justice system by manipulating public opinion of him. They do this by flooding the planet's public feed with artificially generated images. (Again, this episode came out in 2017.)

There's even a followup episode confirming that life on this planet has only gotten worse in the following years.

Like... The Orville really wasn't fucking around, huh.

[chaos-aint-me]

Pageninetynine and Majority Rule

Boston 2017

[itsmythang]

Restrictions on reproductive rights, voting access, and partisan gerrymandering are connected efforts to consolidate political power rather than isolated policy debates. Its central claim is that limiting public participation and personal freedoms reflects a fear of majority rule—the core principle of democracy.

[democracyunderground]

[linguaignotakaraoke]

If you have the opportunity to go to this you gotta! Proceeds go to Gaza Soup Kitchen (check out @nomanband on Instagram for more info)

[hate5sixofficial]

Majority Rule 2025-10-04 St Stephens Church Washington, DC

[relaxedstyles]

[stellarremnantsau]

Check out the Stellar Remnants community on Discord - hang out with 19 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

Welp, you voted for it. Majority rules. Here's a discord server! The voice chat is a lie btw, there is no voice chat. I can't edit the thing apparently lol.