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That couldn't be more of a strawman even if he was with a lion, a Kansas girl and a tin man on a yellow brick road
Counterpoint. It’s not a strawman. The US is is an authoritarian state. If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you. also Why are you here?
You cannot possibly be so self unaware you don't see how absurd that statement is.
Individual authoritarianism and institutional authoritarianism exist as distinct concepts.
I kind of steered into it out of frustration because I don’t entirely believe that this is a legitimate miscommunication and I’m pretty sure at least some of it is actually ppl being deliberately obtuse.
Some degree of earnest, ‘America Bad’, unironically, is the buy-in for participating, and that’s perfectly reasonable.