Moderate in the US means moderately authoritarian.
Moderate in the US means moderately authoritarian.
Edit: I want to say that if certain people weren't dead set on trolling I would have engaged in the argument that the US is already authoritarian. I'm inclined to fully agree. The constitution was written by wealthy whites wanting to preserve their own power. They did sprinkle in some democracy and we do thank them for that. All this to say, that was never my contention.
Conventionally ideology is measured on a spectrum. If being moderately authoritian offends you, move the fuck left.
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Because it's too small and I'm not expanding it. I was hoping you wouldn't be boring.
Authoritarianism is an imaginary distinction between everything permitted by the democratic system of the USA and what Hitler accomplished with tyrannic procedures.
Why would I willingly engage a troll? Are you insane?
In contrast to Germany, the U.S.A. had a constitution which was democratic from the start. And its ruling class managed, particularly during the imperialist era, to have the democratic forms so effectively preserved that by democratically legal means, it achieved a dictatorship of monopoly capitalism at least as firm as that which Hitler set up with tyrannic procedures. This smoothly functioning democracy, so-called, was created by the Presidential prerogative, the Supreme Court’s authority in constitutional questions, the finance monopoly over the Press, radio, etc., electioneering costs, which successfully prevented really democratic parties from springing up beside the two parties of monopoly capitalism, and lastly the use of terroristic devices (the lynching system). And this democracy could, in substance, realize everything sought by Hitler without needing to break with democracy formally. In addition, there was the incomparably broader and more solid economic basis of monopoly capitalism.
- Georg Lukács as quoted there
Oh noooo oh my god someone was disingenuous on the internet as a joke 😰😰😥😥😨😨😨😥😥😨😥😥😨 im going to curl up into a ball and die
You ok, kid?
Man, you are really are a brainless dipshit. I'm ridiculing the idea of being upset by "trolling".
Takes one to know one.
Well I didn't pick your username. I'm here to live inside people's walls, not be a dipshit. I don't care if you all get mad, it's funny. I will continue to explain things.
You aren’t explaining anything though, you are trolling as an ignoramus.
Yes I am, go real the Lukács quote about lynching and the Monthly Review article. They're very dank. I just don't give a shit about what redditors think,,,
You can entertain yourself up with forum claptrap as much as you like, it doesn't change the fact that authoritarianism is an artificial distinction between countries that are considered good by the USA, Israel, South Korea, and Japan, EU, UK, Eastern Europe to a certain extent (more on this later), Australia, and le "authoritarian regimes" in countries we sanction or threaten; between "good Zionists" like Biden and "bad Zionists" like Netanyahu and Ben Gvir and Trump and in fact Putin in many respects.
Authoritarianism is just another way of using fancy language to dress up an affinity for "western democracy" and here OP is defining the democratic and republican parties by their ability to live up to this false ideal. The USA, etc, has never been truly democratic.
Are you used to the world spoonfeeding you? You should get un-used to that. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!
You should probably finish reading the thread before you start puffing yourself up and posting totally badass memes with pitbulls smoking cigars.
You ok, kid?
You ok, kid?
You can read, then? Do you just enjoy cosplaying as a dipshit?
You OK, kid?
Stop spamming or be reported. Your choice.
Oh my gosh darn, no! Don't report me! Please! I have a family! No!!! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well you decided to behave so I’ll let you off with a warning this time. Don’t push your luck.
Oh thank you so much for not banning me from lemmy.world, the opinions of a bunch of incels with piss stained pajamas on tapping away at the keyboard with two fingers really means a lot to me. I'd hate to lose it lolz