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Easier for Russia to either invade or exert power?

If your representatives aren't in any way obligated to vote in accord with the wishes or best interests of the people they represent then it's definitely not any kind of democracy

Most representative democracies have no requirement for representatives to actually vote accordingly to their voters interests. This is called the free mandate.

So the electorate college works in the same way. I vote for a middle man which I trust to vote accordingly with my wishes. The electoral college is a dumb system no doubt, but it isn't necessarily non-democratic

I have had a Google home for years and I wholeheartedly agree. It is like they lobotomized it a couple of years ago?
Commands that it could do when I bought it, to my amazement (wow it can do that‽), is long gone. Now it feels like it struggles even with the most simple commands such as playing news or turning on a light.

Wonder what happened.

Edit: oh yeah, and it has become sexist as fuck. It won't listen to commands whatsoever from women. If a man tries the exact same command it executes it.
Voice models retained and all.

Well neither are your representative congressmen. Following that reasoning, only direct democracy is democracy?

That is the definition of a democracy, no representative voting?

Are you 12?

What is a 'reasonable definition' of democracy according to you?

Firefly and Futurama

Sure it does

The article stated unoccupied territory. This isn't the same as moving into other countries?

Mate what. It's not like the state is oblivious to ownership. If a person own a company in another country that sells armaments to an enemy country, the stat would smack down on that so hard.

Bet most governments would question where the owner got the bazooka from if it's not coming from the company

I'm fairly certain any company deciding to supply arms to both their country and its enemy would immediately be charged with treason