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Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by kcplate on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:01AM (#31398432)
HN to me is a enigma. I see comments on here a lot lamenting simple majorities for presidential elections being a necessary for a “democracy”, and now comments describing simple majorities being un-democractic.

I am not making a comment that either is good or bad, just it seems that what “democracy” means tends to be pretty damned subjective.

Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by kergonath on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:45PM (#31400056)
> I see comments on here a lot lamenting simple majorities for presidential elections being a necessary for a “democracy”, and now comments describing simple majorities being un-democractic.

It might also be that both sets do not overlap much. Nerds have always had strange opinions about what democracy is.