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Re:Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State by Brometheus on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:49AM (#19738876)
A republic is a form of democracy, like a cat is an animal.
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Re:Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State by dragonwriter on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:28AM (#19746125)
> A republic is a form of democracy

No, it's not.

But a democratic republic or representative democracy with republican form (as opposed to, e.g., a constitutional monarchy) is both a form of democracy and a form of republic.

There are autocratic and/or theocratic republics, among others, that are not forms of democracy.

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Re:Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State by Kaiyou on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:24AM (#19746105)
A rebulic is a form of democracy the same way a moon is a form of planet. Instead of orbiting around the sun, it's orbiting around a planet and that planet is orbiting around the sun. Or, instead of voting directly for things, people vote for other people, that vote directly for things.
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