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Why is NK called Democratic People's Republic if it's not? The marketing copy can say whatever it needs to.

• sethops1 1y ago
  And America isn't a democracy, it's a Republic.
  • yndoendo 1y ago
    When the Presided of the USA is no longer bound by the Constitution, written law, it is no longer.
    • thyristan 1y ago
      Funnily enough, it isn't even a constitutional monarchy then, it regresses beyond that to an absolute monarchy.
      • rbanffy 1y ago
        The fact remains the country, as defined by its laws, should be a democracy. Its people will have a lot of stuff to fix in a couple years.
  • OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y ago
    This is the most infuriatingly incorrect statement. America is a democracy AND it's a republic AND a bunch of other stuff. The full description is that America is a Federal Constitutional Representative Democratic Republic.
    • rbanffy 1y ago
      Technically “America” is a continent. The country is called “United States of America”. ;-) And yes, saying it’s not a democracy infuriates me as well, because it’s being used to justify a whole lot of undemocratic shenanigans.
      • OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y ago
        Lol I almost went for that pedantry. However technically America is not a continent (under most definitions of continent) but North and South America are. :P
        • rbanffy 1y ago
          America would then be the whole land mass. Or something like that.
        • SllX 1y ago
          Unless you grew up in a place that taught a six-continent model instead of a seven-continent model and it was NA/SA consolidated instead of Europe and Asia into Eurasia. Also: continents are bullshit. Also also: America is the United States of America in the English-speaking world.
          • rbanffy 1y ago
            I don't hear it being called "America" here in Ireland. The only place I hear it is in the US, which is how I call it.
            • SllX 1y ago
              If somebody says "America" to you in Ireland, are you confused about what they are talking about? That's the difference.
              • rbanffy 1y ago
                I’ll immediately know I’m talking to someone from the US. It’s a bit like someone saying the hood of a car and we understanding they are referring to the bonnet. We don’t call it “hood” here, or, I suspect, anywhere else in the English speaking world.
                • SllX 1y ago
    • apple4ever 1y ago
      No a Federal Constitutional Republic captures it perfectly. We are not a Democracy.
  • Biganon 1y ago
    Oh my god I cannot stand reading this anymore, why do so many people parrot that like it's some gotcha phrase. "A cat is not a pet, it's a feline." Things can be multiple things at once. The US are a republic and a democracy. Republic = not a kingdom, democracy = power to the people. Close but not exact synonyms.