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@hakan_geijer @mu @AvengingFemme

That’s fair—lots of people colloquially understand democracy to mean something like “a majority of voters periodically selecting politicians who then make decisions that are violently imposed on people.” And I happily oppose that, both substantively and the idea that this meaningfully represents freedom.

But there are *lots* of terms I hope to rescue from colloquial usage—terms like freedom and liberty and equality and property and economy and commons and a million more. I think we benefit from rescuing these terms and imbuing them with more substance (often archaic in meaning). I think it helps to take familiar-seeming concepts and show people how those terms have been twisted to recruit people into participating in their own oppression.