The place is filled with plenty of examples of US authoritarianism. Consider lurking before posting OP.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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I didn't make it in the screenshot 😔
I also got banned for that LMFAO
I didn't even say anything about the 'strawman' I just said that "ban you for speaking too loudly" was bad
I find that that's usually the case for most people. The part of the school system that was responsible for teaching them critical thinking skills really failed them. It's also why people try to dumb down politics into one of two sides, it's why our government will always inevitably fail. This guy is using the authoritarian label because that's as far as his understanding of politics go. The US is an oligarchy, the US is imperialist, the US is nepotistic, but it is not authoritarian, yet.
Having said that, there are groups certainly interested in claiming that so that the authoritarian label means less for other nations, the sort of nations they want to defend. Given the submissions in that "community", I would say this is the case here. People who really are against authoritarians and who might believe the US to be wouldn't go and whitewash other authoritarian states. This community is a manifestation of whataboutism propaganda IMO.
The US deserves criticism, but if you really want to make it, I would encourage avoiding places with an underlying agenda like this one. In case you disagree with me, you can test it out easily for yourself, just post there and compare the US to other countries you would consider de facto authoritarian states, and see which countries they have a problem with you bringing up for comparison.
The US is authoritarian in the form of inverted totalitarianism.
We don’t live under the dictatorship of the US government as would be traditional authoritarianism, we live under the dictatorship of capital which effectively owns the US government and controls the population by force.
You shouldn’t of gotten banned for that but at the same time mods have the right to protect their communities from people who argue in bad faith and given this is the internet it’s safe to assume bad faith. (Even if you weren’t)
"We're good and you're bad"
Holy shit lmao you can't write irony this good.
There's a theory that the horrible grammar of the Nigerian email scams that gave them away helped them because it automatically helped filter out the people who could have given them the most trouble and would have been the easiest to scam. The same applies to here.
LOL I knew that and they still use similar techniques in the Calcutta Call Centers today, but I never thought about it applied to really anything else, you're probably right.
Just for the lols, someone try asking them if they're pro-Russian
They 100% are, and tell you that they don't actually support Russia but have a "temporary ally" against the capitalist super power... Blablabla...
In the end they support the genocide in Ukraine, hate that genocide in Palestine and generally cherry pick what they seem fascist (the US and Europe) and what not (China, while Russia is temporarily fascist, but that's okay because of reasons).
Those guys were never politically active in the real world. It's super sad, because deep inside they are on the right track. They just would change one (capital fascist) system by stalinism (which they call communism).
Very beautifully written!
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I get the ironic angle of the mod being "authoritarian" but that's their space and if they decide they don't want to deal with trolls arguing about they can ban people.
Just like trans communities can and should ban people who just want to argue about if trans people are real. If you try to argue against it you're just being a dick and distracting from the point of the community.
How was OP trolling? They simply called out the strawman in the OOP
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