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[+] -10 points 2 months ago* (28 children)

Authoritarianism is a meaningless term used by edgy children whose brains haven't fully developed yet

You tend to lose a bit of credibility when you start your argument with this kind of sentences. After that you would need to prove that your reasoning is at least as qualitative, as, say, Hannah Arendt's work, and unfortunately it is far off the mark.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Hannah Arendt, the woman who said Jews were to blame for the holocaust because they didnt rise up?

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  • [+] -9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's like you don't read these things at all?

    Her definition and study of totalitarianism are still intellectually relevant, but hey, if she had a blue car instead of a red car, then of course I see your point.

    Do you all go to the same school of completely missing the point and having the most ludicrous rhetorical responses?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago*

    Okay, so it was that Hannah. Seems like you don't see the point.

    I've read her drivel. I just dont blindly swallow propaganda merely because I am told the person serving it is very clever. Looking at any definition or practical application of the concept of "authoritarianism" (don't get me started on your weird sidetrack of totalitarianism) makes it clear its actual purpose is to serve as a propaganda shorthand for "badguyplace."

    Every definition is either so broad as to describe every state or so narrow as to be pointless, where you might as well just say China (or the USSR back in the day)

    The ridiculous concept of looking at how a state wields power, while ignoring who is in control of the state, what support they have and to what purpose they wield said power, is asinine to say the least. Not to mention, once again, that every state wields power in an authoritarian fashion.
    It was developed by Hannah Arendt so she could say "actually the Nazis and the society are totally the same and not at all like us freedom-lovers, never mind all the authority we wield to suppress our own and foreign populaces."

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)
  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Ha! They told me the odds of winning the lottery were infinitesimal and yet I have been called a lib on lemmy.ml. Nobody will believe me.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    my bad, i'll fix it

    I even fixed the spelling!

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Wait, now this needs some clarification. Is it anti-communists as someone who is against communists or anti-communists as people who share a hatred of communism? Because one might be downright libelous

    But thanks for your reactivity, I feel like lib is a bit lazy

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    That's an amazing counterpoint, thank you.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    No worries. Dismissing the very concept of authoritarianism right off the bat was a nice move, too.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Libs being confronted with the fact that propaganda terms they've memorized are meaningless never gets old.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    You still believe in the existence of propaganda or even the concept of memory? Smh, you need to break the chains of bourgeois discourse and ascend to ad hominem attacks

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That's not an ad hominem dumbass. Neither is this.

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