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Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by antientropic on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:22AM (#23939849)
Please not this misguided pedantry. A country can be a republic and a democracy. Those terms are not mutually exclusive.
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Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by pensatoio on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:17PM (#23968956)
I didn't write this frivolously.

There are people marching through the streets chanting, "this is what democracy looks like." They don rose-tinted glasses - projecting their mob rule fantasy of popular vote and pure democracy on our explicitly democratic republic.

Words have meaning. It's not misguided pedantry.

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Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by dodobirdlord on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:46PM (#23941636)
Moreover, by the conventional definition of democracy (government legitimacy derives from the votes of some subset of the population) all republics are necessarily democracies.
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