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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by nkozyra on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:31PM (#21425304)
> America is not a democracy — it is a constitutional republic with democratic elements.

People like to say this all the time like it's clever, but being a republic does not preclude being democratic. The United States is a democracy.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by dragonwriter on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:34PM (#21425316)
> being a republic does not preclude being democratic.

No, but the particular form of the US republic does so in practice.

> The United States is a democracy.

The United States may have been built around an idea of representative democracy, but in function it is more of a plutocratic republic with quasi-democratic rituals.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by jakelazaroff on Saturday November 02, 2019 @05:10PM (#21430116)
Oof, “democratic rituals” is an uncomfortably accurate description of voting in the U.S.
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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by charles_f on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:40AM (#21434474)
> quasi-democratic rituals

"We're doing stand-ups and we use story points, we're agile"

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by frankzen on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:37AM (#21441032)
Electoral college, bruh. Not a true democracy.
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