• voracitude@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Would you believe that the people in a democracy look poorly on attempts to overthrow that democracy? Shocking stuff, but it’s true.

    Unrelated, I do have questions. I find myself wondering where you came by your taste for leather. Did you acquire it later in life or were you born with a boot in your mouth? And is the brain damage from licking up all the polish, or being dropped repeatedly on your head?

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      9 months ago

      I’ve never seen someone both frothing at the mouth and have a raging hard on at the same time.

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      And to be fair, the US isn’t a “democracy”. It’s a constitutional republic with democratically elected representatives. Semantics, I know, but accuracy counts.

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        9 months ago

        Nobody means “universal direct democracy” when they say “democracy”. Not the ancient Athenians, not the Swiss, nobody.

        This is a very disingenuous talking point.

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          9 months ago

          It’s not a talking point. Seems quite a few Americans don’t know what our actual form of government is called. Accuracy counts.

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            9 months ago

            Words mean what the people using them agree that they mean.

            You are holding a minority position here. It would seem you do not know what your form of government is called.

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                9 months ago

                Well, you are correct by a minority. But incorrect by the majority.

                Its called perspective and language. Study papers need to define the word sometimes from the ground up so the paper becomes understandable.

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                    I guess your ego to be right is more worth than valuable conversations where people actually understand each other by being on similar wavelengths.

                    Congratulation. You are right. But I dont know where.