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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by seanw444 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:17PM (#31028999)
It's a Constitutional Republic.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by ickwabe on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:51PM (#31029583)
That's semantic sleight of hand. The US is clearly a representative democracy.

One related opinion on this topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti...

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by seanw444 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:03PM (#31031724)
Yes, republics utilize some democracy. Are republics == democracy? No. Otherwise one of the two words wouldn't exist.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by colinmhayes on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:08PM (#31032588)
It's a square and rectangle situation. Republic is a subset of democracy.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by the_only_law on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:06PM (#31031792)
If you’re only allowed a single word to represent anything, I’m afraid much of your sentence is incomprehensible because o many of those words simply can’t exist.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by colinmhayes on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:56PM (#31029642)
Which is a form of democracy...
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