• AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    republic
    /rĭ-pŭb′lĭk/

    noun

    1. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
    2. A nation that has such a political order.
    3. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.

    Xanthrax is using definition 3 while others are using 1. Should have been easy to resolve without vitriol. But maybe you “know what [he’s] doing” and are “just putting that out there”?

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      We are a republic and a democracy (the latter is questionable now). Just like many other nations in the world.

      This is not a new piece of disinformation, it’s been around for a long fucking time. So yes, when I see people parroting these easily disproven lies (and then refuse to accept it when someone corrects them), I tend to question their motives.