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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by MrYellowP on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:33AM (#29837890)
Democracy and propaganda aren't mutually exclusive. Plus, the US isn't a democracy. In fact, most countries banging the democracy-propaganda-horn aren't actually democracies. Austria, for example, is a Republic. Democracy is just a smokescreen.
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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by goodpoint on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:58PM (#29843938)
> ... aren't actually democracies. Austria, for example, is a Republic

"republic" and "democracy" are in no way mutually exclusive terms.

On the contrary, the overlap very often. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic for a definition.

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