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Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump by bayesian_horse on Saturday April 01, 2023 @06:10AM (#35398965)
Democratic means all the people rule. Look it up some time. If you kill off a part of those people they don't rule. If you don't let them vote, if you deny them certain other rights and liberty, they don't rule.

This is much more well defined than you try to argue. Your main argument is basically your ignorance of much of political theory for the past two centuries at least...

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Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump by skissane on Saturday April 01, 2023 @06:19AM (#35399010)
> Democratic means all the people rule.

What about 17 year olds? They don't get to vote, so by your definition, you don't have a democracy.

Drop the voting age to 16, as some propose? Then 15 year olds still don't get to vote, so you still don't have a democracy.

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