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Re:Finance makes Apple and Google forced friends by Someguywhatever on Thursday October 18, 2018 @11:59AM (#18249404)
US is not a democracy, it's a republic AFAIK. The design philosophy behind the architechture of US Government is explicitly that it is not a democracy.
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Re:Finance makes Apple and Google forced friends by TheCoelacanth on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:23PM (#18249626)
The US is both a democracy and a republic. The terms are not mutually exclusive. To the contrary, it is much more common to be both than to be just one or the other.
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