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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] notsosure@sh.itjust.works -2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Greece. Republic of Rome, to name just two.

[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Neither of those were modern democrocies. Hell, one could argue that the word democracy doesn't actually apply to modern democracies since we are not using the Greek definition of the word.

We are technically using the Six Nations definition of the word.