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chinese democracy

A situation where everyone votes on how to deal with an issue or situation. Then the person who calls for the vote decides without taking the voters considerations , and everyone else has to like it.
Chinese Democracy in action.

Person 1: What do we all want for lunch today. Lets take a vote?
Person 2: Pizza
Person 3: Indian food
Person 3: Mexican

Person 5: I want pizza too
Person 6: I'm cool with Indian food
Person 7: I could go got pizza
Person 8: I fancy tacos
Person 1: Well i'm ordering sushi
by Flange22 February 7, 2020
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Sonic Democracy

“Hey man, ya going to see sonic democracy on Friday?”
Absolutely! I’d be an absolute nut if I didn’t go!”
by Musical_avao1010 February 12, 2021
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Workplace Democracy

Workplace Democracy is the application of democracy to the workplace. (Voting systems, due process, systems of appeal, etc.)

Workplace democracy is extremely versatile; It can be implemented in as many ways as political democracy is implemented. Its implementation often depends on the size and culture of the organization.

Historically, workplace democracy has followed the labor movement both in the UK and the US. But with the decline in organized labor, especially in the US and US-controlled firms, workers have fewer opportunities to experience workplace democracy.

Workplace democracy is a key compenent in many forms of socialism, such as market socialism, because it replaces decisions made by private individuals with decisions made by workers. Organizations that implement workplace democracy are considered worker co-operatives.
"Workplaces should be structured more like democracies than monarchies"
"Workplace democracy is based as fuck."
"Tankies never talk about decommodification and workplace democracy."
by Whette Aeggue March 27, 2021
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Dictator democracy

Vote in your favourite dictator and watch in dismay for for 4 more years
I really love this dictator democracy. 4 more years of this crapolla...
by Pinocchio Jnr October 29, 2021
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Western democracy

Imagine there is a freaked out dwarven self-proclaimed hegemon coming inside your home out of nowhere and telling you in the most arrogant manner that you have to follow his way of f-ing the world and that this is a status-quo you are not allowed to change. That is an approachable definition of the western democracy thing going on globally.
U have to comply to western democracy, dude, that is the only way of breathing. Heil democracy!
by Umbago September 5, 2024
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Crony Democracy

Crony Democracy is a sham political system that maintains the outward appearance of a democracy—elections, parties, a constitution—but where real power, wealth, and policy are shaped by a tight, corrupt network of connections between the ruling political class and their favored business elites.

In a crony democracy, your success depends less on merit, public support, or fair competition, and more on who you know, who you’ve bribed, or which politician you went to school with. The government uses regulation, state contracts, and public resources to reward allies and punish opponents, while keeping up a theatrical performance of legitimate democratic process for the voters and the international community.
Don't be fooled by the elections here; it's a total crony democracy. The president's cousin got the billion-dollar infrastructure contract, his major donor's company pays no taxes, and the opposition can't even get airtime on TV.
by AbzuInExile January 24, 2026
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Council Democracy

A model where sovereign political power rests with a network of directly elected, recallable, and grassroots councils (like workers' councils in factories or community councils in neighborhoods), which federate upward to larger coordinating bodies. It rejects both liberal parliamentarism and vanguard party dictatorship, aiming for a bottom-up, delegate-based system. It’s the political structure championed by libertarian socialists and council communists, who saw it in the brief flowering of the Paris Commune or the early Soviet councils before Bolshevik centralization.
*Example: The short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic (1919) attempted to implement Council Democracy. Factories and city districts elected councils that sent recallable delegates to a central congress, aiming to administer society without a separate, professional bureaucracy or party hierarchy. It was crushed by Freikorps and central government forces.*
by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026
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