Message from @Flavius Stilicho
Discord ID: 661007535272230913
The US is a Democratic Republic
@Storin well i mean only the upper crust of athenian society could vote anyway\
If you gonna come in here and quote Greek "democracy" you better be educated on it kizza <:PepeLaugh:565528391336329216>
Well yes actually, I don't want to ruin my precious record of 0 internet arguments lost
and they still had leaders
and orators
Or aistrocrat/autocracy voting.
Lmao are you actually being serious?
Luci has pretty much already said what I was gonna say to show you are wrong
Example:
A nation consists of two areas.
There are 100 people in area A.
There are 1000 people in area B.
There is an election coming up.
An area A man wants to lead the country to develop a space program, for the glory of the nation.
An area B man wants to... exterminate all the area A men and subjugate their women... for the... glory of the nation.
This is an absurd, hyperbolic example of why the electoral college exists.
we most revolt against the subscribers!
that's stupid
revolt against people that like sargoy
The word 'democracy' has its origins in the Greek language. It combines two shorter words: 'demos' meaning whole citizen living within a particular city-state and 'kratos' meaning power or rule. Care to explain this @Storin
Very nice
<:xethno:522941537647329280>
You literally don't know anything dude, don't talk about democracy until you have read about its implementation across the millenia <:PepeLaugh:565528391336329216>
Because the one you are asking for is not physically possible day to day
A democracy = people vote directly, while a republic = officials chosen by the people vote, correct?
I just gave you the actual definition boy. Don't get salty being proved wrong.
@KizzaGT "citizenship" in the ancient world was highly selective
Kinda tubby
you think everyone was a citizen?
women werent
slaves werent
and all the ancient economies were slave driven
@Lucienne d'Anwyl good ol' days
poorer men werent
Again it was the "aristocrats" back then.
had to own some land or serve in the military
Gotchu now jew
and peasants living outside the citiy but within the lands governed by the city werent either
Some democracy. That closer to a communist government.
the concept of citizenship is highly fluid
i don't see why people think that weighting votes removes the "tyranny of the majority" aspect of voting, when you weight votes the same dynamic exists it's just that now you only need a minority of people for it to happen
@Tubby the Skelly Bones yes in a republic people vote for representatives who then go and vote in matters of state
“An etymological study of a word and deduction of its ancient meaning is how we should contemporarily use them!”
-An idiot.
Can't have representatives if they don't directly represent their constituents.