• FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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    Wrong. It’s because you never fight back against fascism. You say stupid shit like “Nazis have free speech rights too!” and “you just have to vote harder” and “none of this would have happened if you had voted for Hillary”. This is YOUR DOING. You do not take your freedoms and associated responsibilities seriously, and you refuse to arm up against a rapidly growing clearly violent insurgency.

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    Technically republic is subset of democracy. Also called representative democracy.

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        4 months ago

        Also democracy is opposite of monarchy. And anarchy. Republic is “a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives” which is also called representative democracy, while democracy includes both representative democracy(duh) and direct democracy.

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          “Rests with the public” means “doesn’t rest with a monarch”. If you’re a monarchy, you’re not a republic.

          So the UK is not a republic. Norway is not a republic. Canada is not a republic. (But they are representative democracies.)

          On the other hand, Iran is a republic. North Korea is a republic. Russia is a republic. (Are they functional democracies? That doesn’t matter.)

          Americans are brought up to think “monarchy bad, republic good”, but in practice, mileage varies.

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            If you’re a monarchy, you’re not a republic.

            Where did I say opposite? The only thing I said was that republic is one of types of democracy. That’s it.

            It’s not hard to understand when some subset is member of superset and that superset doesn’t contain another set, said subset doesn’t contain such set either. When I say “bus is one of types of vehicles” and get response “but horse is not a bus”, the only reaction is “no shit, Sherlock”. But when I say “representative democracy(AKA republic) is one of types of democracies” I get what appears to be swarm of angry Americans.

            Americans are brought up to think “monarchy bad, republic good”, but in practice, mileage varies.

            Looking at what I see about America, they look very monarchy-happy. Did you want to say French?

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              4 months ago

              You said republics are also called representative democracies. You also said the monarchy is the opposite of democracy.

              Those are both incorrect statements.

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                You said republics are also called representative democracies. You also said the monarchy is the opposite of democracy.

                If you’re a monarchy, you’re not a republic.

                Where did I say opposite?

                I asked where did I say opposite. Not where we said same thing.

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                  I am not saying the same thing as you.

                  You’re saying monarchy is the opposite of democracy.

                  I’m saying monarchy is the opposite of republic.

                  This isn’t a matter of opinion. You’re just wrong. Monarchies can be representative democracies. The UK is a monarchy and it’s a representative democracy.

                  (But it’s not republic, because republic is the opposite of monarchy.)