• DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    Authoritarian is a useless word. The US is far more authoritarian than anybody those supposed “dictatorships”, but the serious people in suits you’ve outsourced all your thinking to would never say it out loud.

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      17 hours ago

      See, that’s the classic tankie shit I’m used to. Whataboutism and defending dictators.

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        17 hours ago

        And there’s the ShitLib thought-terminating cliches we know and love.

        Once you’ve called them “Tankie” you don’t have to engage with any actual arguments they made, you can just dismiss them! And obviously any comparison between evil Tankie dictatorship and glorious free democracies is just “whataboutism”, so you don’t have to think critically about it at all!