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Jorge Piekarewicz's avatar

Batya reminds me of one of those voters that Trump was referring to back in 2016: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters". Batya's credibility is shattered when she insists on defending the indefensible. She could do much better by emulating Brianna who is the voice of reason rather than being a Trump's myrmidon.

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joe f's avatar

Sorry Brianna doesn't understand the difference in Democracy and republic , and that is a real problem .

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Prescribing Naps's avatar

Sure. However, Batya argues that its "democratic" for America to force Ukraine into a unilateral surrender to Russia with no concessions from Russia because "its what the American voter wants."

Ill take Brianna's conflation of Republic and Democracy (which is a pretty mild distinction given the way we elect every member of the legislature by popular vote now), over Batyas insanely imperialist view of "if American voters want anything anywhere its clearly 'democracy.'"

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joe f's avatar

She did not say "unilateral surrender to Russia" but what are few words here and there ?

And the main problem with liberal thinking is they think Republic and Democracy are the same , which they have no sameness , they are night and day apart ! Communist are all for democracy , I am not .

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Prescribing Naps's avatar

She's full throating Trump's plan, which as of right now is effective unilateral surrender to Russia with no concessions from Russia at all.

I understand you think the Republic vs democracy is some major point scorer for you, it's not. No one gives a shit for the minor semantic different. It really just makes you look like an insufferable pendant.

Yo be very clear, the US system of government would be most accurately described as a Democratic Republic based on how our legislators and executive are selected, but you don't really care about that.

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joe f's avatar

So because she is for Trump ideas your TDS kicks in ? Words matter and pushing ideas that democracy is what the US is wrong . I do care so don't assume !

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Prescribing Naps's avatar

What is my "TDS" here? I'm curious.

I assume you don't care because your semantically wrong. The us is neither a pure republic nor a pure democracy, it is in fact a combination of both. Calling it either a democracy nor republic would be wrong. Given the confidence you have in your own knowledge only to be wrong, I assumed you didn't care that you were wrong (why would you, I bet you couldn't link me to a single thread where you have ever admitted to being wrong).

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