[I work at Pantheon]

Yes, you can run your custom Drupal site on it, contributed or custom modules.

Respectfully, the premise of this question is incorrect. You are essentially saying "Superman can fly on TV, so it doesn't seem so insane that I could fly in real life does it?"

There are several ways to measure value. For example, the stock market value of a company is based on its perceived future value. The value I prescribe to is a measure of how efficiently the business turn its capital/revenues into profit.

Businesses are about profit, and little else.

Forgive me for accepting something other than Wikipedia as asource of truth: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... I left off the constitutional part.

The point is people don't understand this. You have never voted for president, I have never voted, your mom has never voted. You cast a non-binding recommendation on election day. There is no difference between casting a ballot for president and not casting a ballot. It is the same thing.

The electoral college ONLY applies to the president. The president can't (despite best efforts) unilaterally make laws. The role of president has very little legislative power (IMHO) as it should be.

The fact that people blindly use the word "democracy" (something that the founding fathers warned against) and attempt to "spread" it in other countries only highlights the need for better education.

We are under a rule of law, not a rule of mob:

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." - Benjamin Franklin.

Without physical security there is no security. I don't see how this is a flaw specific to DB.

To clarify, Twitter hasn't and doesn't make boatloads of money.