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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by zaptrem on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:17PM (#28400033)
lemmie guess... “America isn’t a democracy, it’s a republic” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti...

“The government wasn’t meant to fulfill the will of the people... it was meant to fulfill the will of my people!”

Minority rule has a much longer and more gruesome history of abuses, and it never ends well for the rulers.

Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by Grakel on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:30PM (#28452693)
What a straw man argument in that article. "not a democracy" simply refers to avoiding decisions based on the public opinion that sways in the wind, sometimes dramatically. See vaccine and mask mandates.