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Well, you deleted your hilarious comment. But allow me to retort anyways.

Are you one of those 'Muricans who seriously think 'Mmmurica is the only democracy in the world?

America is not a democracy. It's a democratic republic.

Democracy is a very wide term, 2bored2carethx. It can come in many, many forms. The basis of a democracy is that the populace can elect their leaders.

You're equivocating. You're trying to use "democracy" in a popular since to defend your misuse of it in a technical sense. Not working.

A technocratic democracy, that you now mention, is an interesting idea. But it is still a democracy since the people can choose which engineers/scientists/economists/etc they want to rule their country.

No, it's not a democracy. It's a democratic technocracy. A democracy is a thing; a technocracy is a thing; a technocratic democracy is a thing. A democracy need not be technocratic; a technocracy need not be democratic; a democratic technocracy must be both democratic and technocratic. When a democracy and a democratic technocracy can both exist contemporaneously and function entirely differently, you cannot simply truncate it and call it a democracy simply speaking.

A technocratic democracy, that you now mention, is an interesting idea.

Not really. It's the classical example of a technocracy. 99% of the time when the term "technocracy" is used, it is referring to a democratic technocracy.

And fuck you, you fucking piece of shit.

No, fuck you. You're a condescending asshole that goes around abusing people when you don't even have a pedestrian understanding of the topics you are discussing. When shown to be wrong, you dissemble and equivocate by slivering between technical and popular usages of words to save face.

People like you are poison. Either educate yourself, or be silent.

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