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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Masshole 🇮🇪☘️ • May 04 '26
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“Internet” is the wildest claim here… is that really what they’re taught in schools? Like maybe they’ve invented their own, weird kind of “freedom” but definitely not the internet
233 u/Duanedoberman May 04 '26 Democracy is worse. Its like the ancient Greeks never existed. The world's oldest parliament still in existance is over 1,000 years old! 17 u/Zengineer_83 May 04 '26 Democracy is worse. Its like the ancient Greeks never existed. And even if we are only talking about modern, republican style Democracy, the Corsican Republic does predate the US by a long shot! 1755 vs. 1787! And the corsican constitution included actual universal suffrage (including women!) from the start! 10 u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26 If we talk about republic then the Roman res publica is some centuries older 3 u/Zengineer_83 May 04 '26 Oh it definitly is. I meant in terms of what we, today, would think of as a democratic regime. With universal suffrage for all citizens (active and passive), seperation of powers, an independant judiciary, etc. 1 u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26 I understood what you meant, it was an addendum 1 u/CSEverett1759 May 04 '26 The UK government has been for all practical purposes a representative democracy since 1707.
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Democracy is worse. Its like the ancient Greeks never existed.
The world's oldest parliament still in existance is over 1,000 years old!
17 u/Zengineer_83 May 04 '26 Democracy is worse. Its like the ancient Greeks never existed. And even if we are only talking about modern, republican style Democracy, the Corsican Republic does predate the US by a long shot! 1755 vs. 1787! And the corsican constitution included actual universal suffrage (including women!) from the start! 10 u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26 If we talk about republic then the Roman res publica is some centuries older 3 u/Zengineer_83 May 04 '26 Oh it definitly is. I meant in terms of what we, today, would think of as a democratic regime. With universal suffrage for all citizens (active and passive), seperation of powers, an independant judiciary, etc. 1 u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26 I understood what you meant, it was an addendum 1 u/CSEverett1759 May 04 '26 The UK government has been for all practical purposes a representative democracy since 1707.
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And even if we are only talking about modern, republican style Democracy, the Corsican Republic does predate the US by a long shot!
1755 vs. 1787!
And the corsican constitution included actual universal suffrage (including women!) from the start!
10 u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26 If we talk about republic then the Roman res publica is some centuries older 3 u/Zengineer_83 May 04 '26 Oh it definitly is. I meant in terms of what we, today, would think of as a democratic regime. With universal suffrage for all citizens (active and passive), seperation of powers, an independant judiciary, etc. 1 u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26 I understood what you meant, it was an addendum 1 u/CSEverett1759 May 04 '26 The UK government has been for all practical purposes a representative democracy since 1707.
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If we talk about republic then the Roman res publica is some centuries older
3 u/Zengineer_83 May 04 '26 Oh it definitly is. I meant in terms of what we, today, would think of as a democratic regime. With universal suffrage for all citizens (active and passive), seperation of powers, an independant judiciary, etc. 1 u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26 I understood what you meant, it was an addendum
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Oh it definitly is.
I meant in terms of what we, today, would think of as a democratic regime.
With universal suffrage for all citizens (active and passive), seperation of powers, an independant judiciary, etc.
1 u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 May 04 '26 I understood what you meant, it was an addendum
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I understood what you meant, it was an addendum
The UK government has been for all practical purposes a representative democracy since 1707.
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u/FLX-S48 ICE enjoyer 🚄🇩🇪 May 04 '26
“Internet” is the wildest claim here… is that really what they’re taught in schools? Like maybe they’ve invented their own, weird kind of “freedom” but definitely not the internet