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retiredaccount wrote

its something much better

generally I just respond to that as if they said "democracy" because if i go "its the only neo-nazbolshevik-baathist" thats pretty arbitrary of a definition to use to proclaim superiority

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retiredaccount wrote

I'm saying that adding arbitrary descriptors lets me say anything is the 'only' of something, which itself is meaningless.

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retiredaccount wrote

their implication was that israel is the best by arbitrarily using "liberal democracy" to discount other democracies

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