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random@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months ago

the us is an authoritarian state

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the us is an authoritarian state

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random@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months ago
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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.

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      How was OP trolling? They simply called out the strawman in the OOP

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      If the point of a community is spreading misinformation, you have a moral obligation to distract from the point of the community

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        Are you suggesting America isn’t authoritarian?

        • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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          idk about that specifically, I was making a general statement about the behaviors of this genre of online community

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          The gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.

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          I’ll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state.

          Do you think it is?

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            why prison pop is so high then?

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              Money.

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                how is that different from “an authoritarian state”

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                  Oh its worse.

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            Removed by mod

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            They have a larger prison population then any other country and spend more on military than the next several countries combined

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              at least the us doesn’t have concentration camps ig

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                US prisons are not far off what with the forced labor and high death rates.

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                  yeah, ik and I hate both the us and china, I just can’t stand it when people claim that the us is the worse than china, which isn’t true since in the us you at least get free speach and the right to own a gun

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                The US only has forced labor programs in dangerous work conditions

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                  don’t know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough

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                    They’re currently putting out the California fire, you cant get much more dangerous

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          Are you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?

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        And does that apply to when transphobes decide that trans people being real is “misinformation”?

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          No, because it’s not. Truth is not subjective.

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            Lmao, my sweet summer child.

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              For future reference if you find yourself saying this phrase you’ve already lost the argument

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                Cool, but idk since the truth isn’t subjective and the truth is I’m right.

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                  Nuh uh

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