US Authoritarianism

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I am an authroity in electrocuting myself with car batteries, I can say with perfect authority backed by experience that it hurts like a motherfucker. Wheres the fucken authoritarianism in that statement, sure theres some amount of absolutism in that I am assuming that everyone or atleast most people find electrocution of that type painful. But thats why we have peer review and consensus, get a couple other dumbfucks who arced their car batteries and we'll find what the consensus is.

Authority is fully seperated from authoritarianism, they simply share a vague as fuck root concept.

[–] ameancow 2 points 3 months ago

I cannot figure out what that user is on about or what they are trying to warn against, I have read all their comments and it's just a lot of weird hand-wavy vibes, I am like 90% sure they're some kind of anti-woke-head trying to seed the idea that equality is the same as tyranny or some nonsense that people get hung up on obsessively.

[–] OccamsRazer -2 points 3 months ago

I'm referring to someone having Authority to uphold laws and issue punishment for not following them. Authority in the context I intended is synonymous with power rather than expertise as in your example.