Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Today, the Leopard 2 tank could get German PM Olaf Scholz' permission to go to Ukraine | DW News" video.

@UnicornMeat512 Russia has been a proto-democracy at best, and that was like a brief flirtation.
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@Kpoole35 Are you one of those clowns that insist that 'republic' and 'democracy' are mutually exclusive terms? Only in Murica...
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@Kpoole35 You're a navel-staring Murican all right. I have a double masters in political science and history, so I think it's fair to say I've forgotten more about the topic than you'll ever know. If the Democracy Index is to be believed, I live in a top democracy. And we have a directly-elected president -- no monarch -- so ours is most definitely a democratic republic. This is an international news forum, so best keep your archaic Americanisms where they belong.
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@Kpoole35 You're unfamiliar with a double MA? I can tell you've never had any exposure to the academic world. Maybe you can still secure a GI bill or better yet, move to Europe, get naturalised and gain a government-subsided BSc in Fine Arts, so that you can call yourself educated.
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@Kpoole35 "Don't have single"? I told you, I have a double. You were concerned that I wasn't educated, so I felt compelled to reassure you that your fears were misplaced. What's more, now it appears that I'm infinitely more educated than you, at least from an academic perspective. Oh puh-lease, there's nothing to define. Even according to your own definitions, democracy and republic are complementary rather than mutually exclusive, just like democracy and constitutional monarchy are complementary. I'm plenty happy not having an idle-rich monarch as a figurehead, but I haven't developed airs because of it. It's a detail. You seem to think a republic is a substitute for a democracy. It's not.
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