Why not just leave? I mean for those who can afford. Especially when this is happening in a country with so many firearms. It could quickly be easier to resist from a safe place.
Why not just abandon everyone that I love to suffer?
The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
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#122This worldview where one side is evil/authoritarian and the other is good/free/liberal is the root of a lot of suffering in the world. It's a flawed worldview that made Americans end up with dysfunctional politicians, because you reward ideological rhetoric more than real, pragmatic long-term planing.
The worldview where "both sides" must have valid points is also extremely problematic. There's no need to give equal time to fascists. Sometimes one "side" is wrong and the only appropriate thing to do is say so.
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There's been about 4 different CPAC/prominent conservative figures who have sieg heiled on stages in front of Trump supporters. The most prominent after Elon was likely Steve Bannon, who didn't even put his hand on his heart. He just straight sieg heiled and smirked at the amount of consequences he knows he isn't going to experience.
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If you think it's ok for a leader of the biggest power in the world to joke and say random things that are lies while blackmailing ex-allies into 'negotiations' and helping russia win an invasion on sovereign territory that US and others promised to protect for not having nukes anymore in 1994, you must be special indeed.
Come on, every president lies. What does it matter if they're a clown or not. At least with Trump it's obvious, and it's not so hypocritical.
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I consider myself to be quite the socialist. Would probably vote democrat in a two party system like that of the US (where I live I can choose between about a dozen parties, the largest of which will then, together, govern). But I also listen to Joe Rogan from time to time, just out of curiosity. It helps me see “the other side” as the kind humans that they are.
You listened to Rogan and your takeaway was “kind human”?
Yeah me too. I think most people that don't like Rogan is because they never actually listened to him, but only heard controversial things about him.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's been about 4 different CPAC/prominent conservative figures who have sieg heiled on stages in front of Trump supporters. The most prominent after Elon was likely Steve Bannon, who didn't even put his hand on his heart. He just straight sieg heiled and smirked at the amount of consequences he knows he isn't going to experience.
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It was not, but anyone can judge for themselves:
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#127Serious question: Why on earth is this flagged? I thought sharing strategies against authoritarianism would be as free speech, open discourse as it gets. Open discourse as promoted here on this site is among the first targets in any authoritarian society. We tech people should be merit based — vuess which form of society prevents exactly this? Suddenly instead of appointing the manager of a nuclear plant based on mer…
For starters: I agree with you. The guidelines for Hacker News ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) state that they don't want "political" topics posted here, and prefer topics that "good hackers find interesting" and that foster constructive discourse. These topics do tend to create a lot of low-signal posts and I think there's a certain contingent of HN users who flag for that reason. I think there…
Problem is the latter group includes Ycombinator and their investors. The hypocrisy is many are actively meddling with politics and working with the current administration.
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No, my point is Trump isn't bad because he's "authoritarian". He's bad because he's completely mismanaging the country, and putting oligarchs in charge of the government. Even for "authoritarian regime", that'd be a horrible way to run a country. It's not like the democrats aren't full of oligarchs themselves, like the likes of Pelosi.
> No, my point is Trump isn't bad because he's "authoritarian". But, you're wrong, he is wrong for that reason. > He's bad because he's completely mismanaging the country He's also wrong for that reason, which is also not completely unrelated to the former reason. > and putting oligarchs in charge of the government. And for thet reason, which is mostly a rephrasing and slightly more specific form of the first reason.…
That's what I'm trying to say. You judge based on the denomination first, like how protestants use to think all catholics are inherrently evil. That was the ideological war of the 16th century, and looking bad do you see how pointless it was?
Sure the Pope and the catholic clergy were corrupt, but they weren't bad because they're catholics or authoritarian. Corruption was the issue, not catholicism itself nor authoritarianism. To think so is to force a narrative.
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> No, my point is Trump isn't bad because he's "authoritarian". But, you're wrong, he is wrong for that reason. > He's bad because he's completely mismanaging the country He's also wrong for that reason, which is also not completely unrelated to the former reason. > and putting oligarchs in charge of the government. And for thet reason, which is mostly a rephrasing and slightly more specific form of the first reason.…
That's what I'm trying to say. You judge based on the denomination first, like how protestants use to think all catholics are inherrently evil. That was the ideological war of the 16th century, and looking bad do you see how pointless it was? Sure the Pope and the catholic clergy were corrupt, but they weren't bad because they're catholics or authoritarian. Corruption was the issue, not catholicism itself nor authori…
> You judge based on the denomination first
“Authoritarian” isn't, and isn’t analogous to, a religious denomination like “Catholic" or “Protestant”.
> Corruption was the issue, not catholicism itself nor authoritarianism
“Authoritarian” as a descriptor is more like “corrupt” than it is like “Catholic”. Not that the claim that being Catholic—or, for those positively inclined toward Catholicism, Protestant or Muslim or Secular Humanist or Satanist (Church of Satan) or Satanist (The Satanic Temple)—is not bad in and of itself is an uncontroversial pillar on which to rest an analogy,