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It's the dunk tank.
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:chefs-kiss: a bonafide classic, the yankee liberal's ultimate retreat-and-defend move
Always point out to them that China is republic too.
EU is very democratic, look at Greece.
someone buy the yank a map
Intelligence is knowing the US is not a democracy. Being a complete fucking idiot is thinking that's because it's a republic.
The whole myth of the American Revolution was that the Americans were fighting for their individual freedoms from the European colonial powers. They wrote a masturbatory declaration of independence about how this will be the land of personal freedom and individual rights. It’s America’s big thing, its source of national pride.
The same people who believe that, the people who fetishize Benjamin Franklin and blabber endlessly about the Federalist Papers and watch the Hamilton musical weekly, will then turn around and say America was not even intended to be democratic from the beginning. They hold two wholly incompatible mythologies.
Quote from the American Declaration of Independence:
This is clearly a call for a democracy. Chuds can squabble about what kind of democracy it was intended to be (no need to bring up the practical absence of genuine democracy) but the intent has always been unambiguous.
"the great mass of people don't have any power"
"ah but we're not supposed to. we're just not a monarchy"
not the airtight case they think it is