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https://www.mediaite.com/online/elon-posts-tweet-agreeing-with-call-to-replace-democracy-with-republic-run-by-high-status-males/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Republic can also just mean not ruled by a monarch. The Dutch Republic wasn’t a democracy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dictionary. Read it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

History book. Read it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It will say names not always correlate with actual thing. Thanks, cap.

Or if you use history for defining words, then federation would mean "with strong leader and rigid power vertical".