• Banana@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      No.

      Democracy:

      a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

      This is a plutocracy:

      government by the wealthy.

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        7 hours ago

        Elon Musk isn’t taking a chainsaw to plutocracy like he claims to be doing with bureaucracy.

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          7 hours ago

          Woops, i misunderstood! I got it flipped

          I was reading it as for democracy, like in favour of, rather than to democracy, like against

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            7 hours ago

            All good! English is a dumb language that does a poor job of differentiating objects in sentences.

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      7 hours ago

      Trump got elected by democracy.

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    7 hours ago

    Randomly asking for my friend, how much is a show “chainsaw”? Like is it similar to the one Javier used during his election campaign(it was a bit more compact)?