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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by tylersmith on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:04PM (#32155631)
They're saying they want to live in a more democratic place. We're saying the US isn't and won't be that place. It's an actual, incompatible disagreement on how much individual people should affect the government not just a debate about wording.

Colloquial misuse of the word only sets people up for disappointment when they find out that a government they call a democracy isn't one.

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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by the_only_law on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:18PM (#32155815)
You seem to think yourself the arbiter of language, when you are not:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy

This is about as useful as arguing about communism vs socialism, you may be right, in the typical HN pedant way, but all that does it make dumb threads dumber.

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