• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    must maintain a strong state, develop a military, and engage in censorship. All 3 get lumped in the vague and clearly now useless category of authoritarian,

    Which is extremely ironic, considering that’s what we do here in the States.

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      3 months ago

      Naturally it is, yes. Though those things are used for imperialism there.

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        Absolutely. The irony is that we constantly wail about any other country doing that.