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mrpgraae
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mrpgraae
2y ago
Yes, words have meanings. What you call "true democracy" is what is usually referred to as direct democracy. You seem to be implying that a representative democracy is not a democracy. It is, it's just a different form than d
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mrpgraae
2y ago
This is like saying that a hamster isn't a mammal because it's a rodent.
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mrpgraae
7y ago
It is clearly possible to change the direction of an objects movement without doing work on it, if you consider forces perpendicular to the direction of movement. In other words, you can change the direction of the velocity vector without d
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mrpgraae
8y ago
The thing about conspiracy theories is that they are usually not falsifiable, at least not to their proponents. As jboggan mentions, this theory is both falsifiable and testable in practice. I think it's important that there are always