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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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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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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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10 points

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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In other words it’s a shitty democracy.

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Democracy, by definition, is 50% +1 vote, otherwise known as “mob rule”. That would be an even shittier system to live under.

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8 points

Ok fascist.

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-11 points

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

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