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Yes, words do have power. Specifically, the power is to communicate common understanding. A huge majority of people use the term democracy to colloquially describe the US government and other systems, which, because of how words work, makes those systems democracies. Now yes, more specifically...

Democracy is also a term used for a class of governments including Republic. Words are defined how they are used. And colloquially, democracy just means republic. Sure, it's not perfectly exact language and you might get a poor grade in a political science class, but in the real world, it's good...

It's close enough. Democracy refers to both a specific type of government as well as a superclass of governments including any system with a large percentage voting base with equal votes and who's vote actually matters. Basically, if voting, democracy. Anyway:

All governments come with inevitable fail states. Democracy/republic/feudal systems seek to diversify who is in power, as opposed to absolute monarchial/dictatorial regimes, which centralize it. Ultimately, people will collapse any system set up eventually. I'd say that democracies/republics at...

Ah, I was responding to the post about progressivism being worse than communism there, and thought you were continuing that. It's got a 150 year head start, it'll be out in front for a while. And yeah, communism has done more than nearly any other ideology to promote evil. For abortion? China...

We are literally comparing bad stuff. Did you forget what started this conversation? A statement that progressivism was worse than communism. So yeah, I am comparing the two to find out which is worse. Everything progressivism has done, communism did more of in a crueler manner. For example...

Covid wasn't intentionally released, and if it was, that would be communism, not progressivism, because the CCP. The vax hasn't killed 10M. If we are talking abortions, China's 1 child policy beats the US. They still crush the US: over 40% of pregnancies in China are aborted. ... You don't...

I'm talking murder. When people are talking about the 100M dead from communism, they aren't meaning accidental famines because they were fuck ups. They mean organized murder.

No. Progressivism is much less worse than those two, as it doesn't have a key element: absolute power. When Progressivism kills it's first 10M people, then it can try to sit at the big evil table.

First, anti-Semetic is actually a valid spelling. I'm shocked you didn't know that, given you professed understanding of how words worked. Second, yes, it also has to do with being against Jews ethnically as well. But, and this is key, if the person who is anti-Semetic also hates Arabs, there's...

Other than French, weirdly enough (they at least pretend they don't work like that). IIRC, there's a central body for the language that tries to regulate it (it probably fails though). "Anti-science". There's a science of how language works, in fact. It agrees with me, not you.

My dude, you don't understand how language works do you, anti-Semetic means anti-Jew because that's how it's been used for a lineage that stretches back over a century. Words aren't legos, you can't parse a word by what its individual parts say. Otherwise, Irregardless would mean the opposite...

Yeah, Ghost (the band with the Hail Satan in the lower right on the original meme), treats it as a joke. On the other hand, actual Norwegian black metal frequently had actually murderous satanists along with church burnings. The funny part of it is that Christian bands who do what would...

No. See, the thing is, we don't think this absolves the corporations, something you'd know if you at all listened to libertarians. We just think it's hilarious that you believe empowering the government depowers the corporations that control the government. But you don't, so you like inventing...