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PT's Socialist Democracy

PT's Socialist Democracy, also Lula's Socialist Democracy, PT Socialist Democracy, Lulist Socialist Democracy, Lulopetist Socialist Democracy or Revolutionary Socialist Democracy, is a political system that aligns democracy with socialism and with the principles of the PT (Workers' Party) and Lula. The PT's socialist democracy is well characterized for being defended by the PT's municipal and state leaders, contrary to the conciliatory policy of the PT's federal leaders. The PT's socialist democracy was theorized and synthesized by Marxism-Leninism-Lulism and as a response from several PT members in response to the coup attempt on January 8, 2023, which would be a justification for Lula, the PT and the allied parties to become Brazil into a Socialist Democracy and adopt a constitution based on socialist democracy, democratic socialism and cooperative ownership.
The PT's Socialist Democracy as a concept emerged as a meme on r/GenLula (also r/GenLula2 and r/genlula3) and also in PT and Lula groups that defended and defend that Lula should have used January 8, 2023 as a justification for the PT to go even further to the left and turn Brazil into a socialist democracy.
by TheAnunnakiTankie June 21, 2023
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Arsenal of Democracy

A psuedo-random coined by President Biden's address to American Public on the Israel-Palestine and Ukraine-Russia conflicts to describe "tools of ethnic cleansing of (mostly women and children) civilian populations, because the adult military age males have all been turned into human shrapnel by the military industrial complex, headed by BlackRock, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin's profiteering war machine, as part of America's undisputed role as World Police, escalating foreign conflicts in countries that hate them, using their for previous usage of their "Arsenal of Democracy".
The American "Arsenal of Democracy" Indiscriminately slaughter an estimated 150,000 - 300,000 innocent civilians during the unjustified and unprovoked Iraq War and WMD false-pretense, as a response to the World Trade Centre 911 Attacks, where sitting President Bush didn't take geography, and blamed the wrong country, and then became the most prestigious war criminal in the 21st century.
by sane-person-in-a-crazy-world October 19, 2023
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Threat to democracy

Republican: *exists*
Democrat: YOU ARE A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY YOU BIGOT WHITE SUPREMACIST KKK HOMOPHOBE RACIST TRUMP SUPPORTER!1!1
by nb21-rz2k September 22, 2024
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late stage democracy

a liberal democracy in which the politicians and bureaucrats behave like chimpanzees on LSD. they throw shit at their peers, and eat food that they know they have stolen but will receive no consequences due to them being "StAtE OfFiCiAlS".

the congress of this democracy seemingly cannot function without pork barrel politics. the congress doubles as a retirement home and mental asylum, or sometimes a massive sex offender registry.

this democracy will last only until a war breaks out, and will go back to a normal democratic system but fade slowly into late stage democracy once more.

common late stage democracies include but aren't limited to; the united states, the united kingdom, canada, and hungary.
"OMG DRUMP IS GONNA DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY"

"we will always be a democracy, a late stage democracy."
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The meta-problem: There is no agreed-upon rule to distinguish science from non-science, and the very search for such a rule may be unscientific. Falsifiability (Popper) fails—string theory isn't easily falsifiable but is considered science. Astrology makes falsifiable claims but is pseudoscience. Methodological naturalism? It rules out theology but also historical sciences that reconstruct unique past events. The hard problem is that "science" is a family-resemblance concept, not a neat category. Any bright-line rule you propose either excludes legitimate sciences or lets in obvious pseudoscience, revealing that demarcation is a social and philosophical negotiation, not a logical one.
Example: Is evolutionary biology science? It reconstructs unique past events (unfalsifiable in a strict lab sense). Yet it's a core science. Is phrenology pseudoscience? It used measurement and data (the "scientific method" of its day). The hard problem: We know the difference intuitively, but can't define it without circular logic ("It's science because scientists do it"). The demarcation criteria are like trying to nail jelly to a wall—the harder you try, the messier it gets, and you're left wondering why you're nailing jelly in the first place. Hard Problem of the Demarcation Problem.
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The prediction problem. Unlike in physics, where you can isolate variables and predict an eclipse to the second, social sciences (economics, political science, sociology) deal with complex, reflexive systems. Humans react to predictions, changing the outcome (the "Lucas Critique"). The hard problem is: Can you have a real science of human society if its core subjects alter their behavior upon hearing your findings? True scientific laws are supposed to be invariant. Social "laws" are more like trends that expire once people know about them, making the field perpetually one step behind a moving target.
Example: An economist develops a perfect model predicting stock market crashes. Once published, investors see it and adjust their behavior to avoid the predicted conditions, thereby preventing the very crash the model forecasted. The model is now wrong. The hard problem: The act of studying the system changes it. This makes falsification—the bedrock of science—incredibly tricky. Social science thus often ends up explaining the past very well (postdiction) but failing at predicting the future, which is what we usually want from a science. Hard Problem of the Demarcation Problem.
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spoon-fed democracy

a "democratic" society that was implemented by colonial government and not gain from organic grassroots revolutionary movement of the proletariat
hong kong in the late era of colonization is an example of a spoon-fed democracy by the imperial british empire
by soundchecked123 January 27, 2026
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