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> You’re confusing among other things, the branding with the reality. I have no idea how you got that idea considering I just wrote that the systems we call de
by anoncake 8y ago
> You’re confusing among other things, the branding with the reality.
I have no idea how you got that idea considering I just wrote that the systems we call democracies may not be all that democratic in reality.
- Pharmakon 8y agoThat’s not what I’m saying. Rather it’s a problem that “democratic” is largely an unhelpful term which obscures rather than reveals anything about a political system.
- anoncake 8y agoOnly if you choose to ignore its actual meaning and insist on treating it as a buzzword.
- Pharmakon 8y agoYou’re going in circles here. You define democracy in nebulous terms that have little or no bearing on any self-styled democracy since Ancient Greece. If that’s your standard for democracy, then of course the whole world falls short and this ceases to be an interesting or productive discussion for exactly the reasons I raised in my original post. Beyond giving a demonstration of just what I’ve come to expect and dread from political “discourse” here, is there anything else you’re going for? If this boils down to Europe not being your idea of democratic now, and for the entirety of its history, then you’re making no point at all.
- anoncake 8y agoApparently your idea discourse is making up stuff that I never wrote. This is indeed pointless.