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That sounds to me like the people she was talking to were the kinds of guys who are highly confident, ill-informed, and probably don't know much more on the subject than a few soundbites or memes. Perhaps they expected to be able to deliver their bombshell and 'win' the interview right there...

This is interesting (and perhaps telling): To me there's a big difference between saying "I thought you meant" and "it didn't read that way" (the "it" being "the sentence"). The first one puts the onus on the reader and how they interpreted it while the second puts the onus on the writer and...

I will go one sentence at a time so we don't get bogged down or lost and in case addressing your first sentence changes your thoughts on what you wrote after. Here's what I actually wrote: So I did not say "you were convinced" or "you appeared convinced", I said "you appear convinced" - ie...

Yep, it's all the rage these days, along with "narcissist" and "empath". I also had to study them and learn. Here's the quick dictionary though: Narcissist = what to label someone if they did something you don't like Empath = someone who imagines their problems are due to being...

I did not know that, no. You wrote: Which was in response to me pointing out you had said two things that were, in my eyes, mutually opposed. I notice you didn't address me pointing that out nor when I asked you directly which one of the two was true. The sentence "we already had that...

Nah, just accidental hilarity. It's a tough one: do people gaslight and manipulate and bully? Do people incorrectly imagine others are out to get them? Do people construct off-kilter narratives where others are the baddies and they're not doing anything wrong? Sadly, the answer to all of those...

Agreed. Though, to be honest, my perception of when I see someone online accuse another person of gaslighting is that they're most likely simply imagining being got at and/or are feeling confused/out of their depth and are using it as a defence mechanism. Same sort of thing with the popularity...

My ambiguous wording? :D (To be clear, I think if we do a vote people will say my wording has been mostly fine and yours has been ambiguous, confusing, and even peculiar.) Yes, I explained again in even more straightforward language what we were talking about and you appeared to {mostly} get...

I've re-read those posts several times and I don't think that's true. That's also confusing - when I wrote: You wrote: Which I took to mean you were claiming that you already knew you were using the word 'republic' differently to how I would understand it, despite appearances to the...

International forum though. If we know people are going to understand a word we use in a way that is different to the one we intend we should probably use a different word or at least explain that it has a different meaning to the one people are used to.

Just re-reading the OP, I notice another potential problem with Pasulka's account (bearing in mind it can't actually have been Mack's book anyway): This shows "James" told her the book was by an author who recounted the experiences of "subjects" - which is exactly what Mack's book is. But...

If it was cropped, as is believed by some to be the case, it makes sense that it would be done to make the main objects in it level (in the event they weren't already).

Not a definition, but that the US has its own localised definition of the word "republic" different to others'.

Yes, but I don't think that's the issue. Non-republics can be democratic and have elected representatives (such as the UK) and republics may not (such as China, Vietnam, Syria, Laos, Chad, and North Korea). Really, as I understand it democracy is a political system applied to governance and...

Sure, but I (and we) live in the 21st century. :) Couldn't be me. I've never heard of any definition of the word "republic" that had anything to do with democracy.

Yes, well said @tinkertailor - I shall endeavour to bear that in mind in the future (and though no doubt fail, perhaps succeed more often than before because of what you wrote). I think originally I got curious by these posts: and wondering why you were connecting being a republic - ie, not...

If you share how your understanding of those things has changed I can answer. :)

Kind of. Or at least understand that if they say something is a threat to a universal concept like democracy or mathematics or science some people will understand it as being meant universally rather than locally. Presumably I had no interest in the original point. But I am interested in your...

I don't know about Sweden or the Netherlands but in the UK we don't go by popular vote, it's basically the same as the US (areas or "seats" instead of "states"). I don't think popular vote vs by areas/seats is related to whether a democracy is a republic or not. I could be wrong though. [ADD...

I wonder why they don't say that if that's the case? What's the practical difference between democracy in a republic and democracy in a non-republic such as the UK or the Netherlands or Sweden?