• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    1·
    24 minutes ago

    Seems like all comments here are “whatabout communism”

    US being an authoritarian shithole is pretty undisputable reality. It could be preferable to debate the point than outright banning the possibly misinformed, but the assumption of military bot troll propagandist is not unreasonable.

      • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 hours ago

        Yes. Communism was never meant to be authoritarian anyway, it’d a classless, moneyless, stateless society. Only some people don’t believe in the stateless part.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        3 hours ago

        If everything is shared under communism, that would include political power. thus (imo) communism is a direct democracy.

        Edit: forgot what thread I was in. What the hell does communism have to do with US authoritarianism?

      • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Traditional communism probably isn’t possible but it’s near guaranteed that no one in Lemmy wants communism like it’s traditionally taught

        Edit: the fuck are you doing in a post about USA authorianism

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    21·
    10 hours ago

    PTB stinking hypocrisy from a distance.

    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?

    Strawman wasn’t enough, was it? There’s an implicit false dichotomy here, between accepting the idiotic reasoning and the conclusion or rejecting both (thus the user not belonging to the sub).

    EDIT: to be clear. I won’t talk if USA is/isn’t authoritarian, that is not my point. My point is that the mod in question is clearly being irrational, and hell breaks loose once you put irrational people on power. I also don’t think that he should be removing users for not agreeing with the premise of the sub.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      7·
      9 hours ago

      Is it a mock-up of Trump being a general dipshit, getting things wrong, then aggressively doubling down on those things when people say anything.