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Timon3today at 2:37 AM1 replyview on HN

But said country would not fulfill "One person, one vote". Why should we weaken such fundamental ideas by allowing them to mean the opposite of their real meaning?

The same phenomenon is happening with "Opt-In by Default". This is newspeak.


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fc417fc802today at 3:49 AM

You are asserting this "one person one vote" definition of democracy. I am questioning it. Where did this constraint on what qualifies as "real" democracy come from?

Keep in mind that the US is a democratic republic (thus a democracy) yet spent the first part of its history restricting who could vote based on (approximately) both gender and race.

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