• imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    That couldn’t be more of a strawman even if he was with a lion, a Kansas girl and a tin man on a yellow brick road

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      2 months ago

      Counterpoint. It’s not a strawman. The US is is an authoritarian state. If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you. also Why are you here?

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          2 months ago

          Individual authoritarianism and institutional authoritarianism exist as distinct concepts.

          I kind of steered into it out of frustration because I don’t entirely believe that this is a legitimate miscommunication and I’m pretty sure at least some of it is actually ppl being deliberately obtuse.

          Some degree of earnest, ‘America Bad’, unironically, is the buy-in for participating, and that’s perfectly reasonable.