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halvsjur on Feb 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did You Hear We Got Osama?

There are very many different ways to do "democracy" though, it's not just the one axis with more democratic or less.

ricky_rozay on Feb 18, 2012 [–]

Yes, and the US is a federal republic, with a very specific electoral system to boot...so many other types of democracy exist before we get to non-democracy lol

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