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My (arguably compulsive) preference for clarity and consistency is satisfied by using "democrat" the same way.

Speaking as a very logic person, I couldn’t agree more with how much sensible this makes.

All good

All four of the things you listed are fine, and yes there would be no particular interest. “Democrat party” is different from all four.

Yes, you are 100% correct. "Democrat" is a noun. "Democratic" is an adjective. Using "Democrat" as an adjective started up as a conservative slur some years back, and using "Democratic" as a noun is never something that anyone with a functioning brain has ever done to my knowledge in the history of time.

I honestly thought they were maybe not a native speaker or just really confused or something, and so gave this detailed explanation after they told me the word salad about "I'm running as a Democratic," and then only after that was when I looked at their history and saw all this astroturf-looking stuff and went oh, I see, I get it, they're just sort of derailing the whole conversation away from the original astroturf discussion with nonsense (and successfully apparently.)

Purely the exact phrases, case insensitive. "Democrats" would not be involved in any of the counts.

There are two additional letters at the end, on the first point.

I mean your comment isn't 100% off base. I was just being a little prickly about it for reasons that will become clear below -- so the reason I chimed in is:

1. Me saying my piece on it in no way makes it difficult for others who want to answer the question to give the answers OP deserves.
2. Some of the people who are going to answer this question who fall into category #2 are going to lie, by definition, and I think it's relevant to point that out and be able to talk about it (that that factor is relevant to the discussion). If everyone was coming into this discussion and telling the truth, then yes it would be inappropriate for someone else to come in and say what those other people's answers were probably going to be.

A long debate about whether or not there are political astroturf accounts on Lemmy is probably off topic here, so I made a thread which might be a little more suited to it.

What the fuck is this headline 🙄

The Washington Post’s story about how Trump is going to save NATO was worse, but only a little

“Unpopular” is a pretty carefully chosen criterion there

Because one and only one of them might put you in a prison camp, and destroy the machinery by which you might ever hope to elect someone who would align with your values, without having to fight a war for it?

Or maybe, "only" deport 18 million people who didn’t do anything. But hey! If none of those 18 million is you or your family, that’d be okay. And you got to make your statement.

It's just bread and cheese, no sauce. And the cheese is underdone. And all the toppings aren't on the pie; they're just pushed all together in one corner of the box, and someone stepped on them.

It's also the energy. They're standing awkwardly, a little too straight but having trouble picking their chins all the way up, feet a little closer together than is comfortable.

It's an imitation of discipline and strength without the substance that would make it look natural.