I don’t know what Greece being the birthplace of democracy 2500 years ago has to do with this.
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Garionreturns26 days ago
+61
It makes the headline sound better.
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Electroppp75 days ago
+9
This is democracy manifest
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DaemonPrimarchJ3 days ago
+1
You know your judo well
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h306665 days ago
+7
Greece, birthplace of democracy, once had a king get killed by a monkey
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Confident_Dragon6 days ago
+19
It sounds better than "Greek populist prime minister proposes meaningless change to constitution hoping it will distract people from their economic decisions".
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RealTomSkerritt6 days ago
+8
You should try reading the article. Its not that hard of a connection to make.
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Boatster_McBoat6 days ago
+17
Nah, he wants to get through pure rational thought alone, like a philosopher from the birthplace of democracy
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GreaterAttack6 days ago
-1
In fact, Greece as we know it didn't exist at the time. The Athenians, who actually invented democracy, repudiated city-states like Sparta and Thebes that were oligarchic.
Of course, the city-state model was itself quite communitarian in its organization, but not always, or even often, democratic.
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AlwaysUpvotesScience5 days ago
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This comment would likely have not received any down votes had you not chose to use the words "in fact" and "of course".
removing the word "actually" would also have served you well.
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GreaterAttack5 days ago
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I'm not sure what you mean. It was just a statement of fact, because the title is misleading. I wrote "of course" because it was an observation that anyone with a classical education would be familiar with.
It isn't a fault of my language if people are ignorant of elementary historical facts.
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JugHerKnot6 days ago
+5
Skynet will remember this
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Foghkouteconvnhxbkgv5 days ago
+1
Wow! That's cool
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Educational-Bus-78275 days ago
-8
Greece is not the “birthplace of democracy”. What a load of horse shit
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Ayvee125 days ago
+4
For someone with education in their username you sure lack it buddy.
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