• Grapho@lemmy.ml
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    If the vast majority of people in a country are happy enough with their input in government to call it “democratic” that’s a pretty good sign it’s a democracy. But sure, it’s everyone else who’s making words meaningless

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      I think you’re conflating “happy people” with “people living under a democratic system of government”. These are not necessarily the same thing.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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        No they’re not, the studies I linked you above, which you obviously didn’t read, clearly shows that people in China see their country as being democratic.

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          You’re being rather unreasonable here, responding to other threads, making out of context comments, “narrating” and referring to me as a “wasp”. I’m happy to have a civil conversation with you on this one day, but it’s clear that you’re not ready for that yet. I’m out.

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            I’m merely pointing out the fact that you’re spewing nonsense here. There’s no point having a conversation with somebody who’s aggressively ignorant. All people such as yourself do is waste everyone’s time. It’s just lazy trolling. If you cared about the subject then you’d spend the time to educate yourself on it first before stating opinions. No investigation, no right to speak. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.