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[โ€“] answersplease77 28 points 1 year ago (8 children)

That's my friend's opinion on living in third world dictatorships. Very sad and wrong imo but I didn't argue with him fearing he reports me

[โ€“] DarthBueller 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Not trying to pick a fight, but I wanted to talk this out a bit because it's something that I feel split about. Take Egypt, for example. Authoritarian government, whose main reason for being authoritarian is to suppress a largely rural Islamist movement from gaining power and creating a theocratic state, but, being authoritarian, they also suppress any critics, but also suppress LGBTQ+ folks to avoid handing red meat to the Islamist movement. Arguably the relatively liberal city dwellers would be far worse off under an islamic theocracy than under a secular authoritarian government. I don't see what other choices Egypt has. And it's damn uncomfortable.

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