Only if you think that the current democratic system is no better than the autocratic royal rule. Where, for example, you had no personal rights if it ever conflicted with the desires of the king.
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How many compulsory diversify trainings do we have to get sent to before we realize that King Charles the Third would be an improvement?
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
Range of outcomes in a democracy is much smaller than in autocracy, you tend to get mediocre results in democracy, in autocracy you might get LKW or you might get Pol Pot.
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Replying to @19CLiberalChris @RokoMijicUK and
Sorry buddy but Pol Pot goes fully in the democracy basket. Where was he trained? Who supported him? If your system trains communist revolutionaries and gives them as much support as possible you don't get to assign that to some other system when they succeed.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @19CLiberalChris and
TIL Pol Pot was in a democratic country called Democratic Kampuchea, and they actually held elections.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
Yeah, but they stopped voting when Pol Pot won so that doesn't count.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @19CLiberalChris and
Uh well wikipedia says that they were to hold elections every 5 years, but DK didn't last 5 years, so I think it's fair to say that it was a democracy.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
"Democracy" is not only about elections. Or if we wish to define it that way, then we can talk about "liberal democracy" or "real democracy" or something. It is a gliding scale, with various factors contributing, not only whether there are elections held or not.
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Replying to @jonatanpallesen @CovfefeAnon and
Real Democracy™ Imagine a Democracy where people voted for a man who said he would build a border wall, and then he actually built less border wall and did fewer deportations than the man before him who was against borders and in favor of immigrants Is that a Real Democracy™?
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
Jonatan Pallesen Retweeted Jonatan Pallesen
Good question indeedhttps://twitter.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1351933398353391620 …
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Still an absurd deflection b/c it assumes that Trump chose not to do the things he tried to do but was prevented from doing by a permanent government that discovered all kinds of new constraints on the president that it suddenly forgot about when the president wasn't Trump.
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