2026-11-12 14:58 UTC
Authoritarian is a completely useless descriptor made up by an anti-semite who believed the jews deserved the holocaust because they didn’t resist enough.
The work was quickly, if not from the beginning, picked up by the CIA and used as propganda.
Any definition of authoritarian is either so broad as to describe any hierarchy or so specific you might just use the proper noun for whatever group you want to scaremonger about. There is no state that is not authoritarian and (pulling a number out of my ass here) 99% of all organisations are “authoritarian” as well.
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@SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk 2026-11-12 15:09
You get different amounts of personal freedom though. Can you own a gun. Is it legal to carry bladed tools. Can you grow weed. Can you make your own rum. If there is a better term to use I’m all for it.
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@technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-13 16:24
The tankie arguments in favor of authoritarianism are truly a gift of word salad.