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[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago

You said "Russia is authoritarian like the Republicans", you then said "I agree the Democrats' prosecution of the genocide in Palestine is authoritarian" but you fail to see that this means "Russia is authoritarian like the Democrats".

You seem to think that authoritarianism is somehow a special case of governance, that there are authoritarian states and leaders and non-authoritarian states and leaders. However, the analysis by historians shows us that this is not true. Literally every piece of evidence you can provide to apply the term "authoritarian" to one state can be applied to all states throughout history. Same goes for state leaders.

Russia is no more or less authoritarian than the USA, UK, France, Spain, Australia, Canada, Vietnam, China, Japan, Korea, US Korea, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Haiti, South Africa, Nigeria, Niger, Kenya, Turkey, Greece, India, Georgia, etc etc etc.

It's a useless term that conveys only your lack of understanding and propagandized world view. It does not convey any information about the actual world, only about the paucity of your awareness and critical thinking.