The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
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The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
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Re: The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
#2A good read. I was a bit saddened while reading the election thread earlier here on HN - there were more authoritarian voices here than I would've hoped.
Re: The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
#3AI generated banner image: immediate skip.
Re: The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
#4A good read. I was a bit saddened while reading the election thread earlier here on HN - there were more authoritarian voices here than I would've hoped.
indeed! HN has gone way to the authoritarian right. Not just socially but also a lot of HN readers favor economically authoritarian policies like tariffs!
Re: The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
#5The article mentions "immigration due to climate" - could someone give an examples of such occurrences?
Re: The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
#6The article mentions "immigration due to climate" - could someone give an examples of such occurrences?
Crop failures in Syria contributed to their civil war which led to a migration crisis in Europe.
Subsistence farmers in Central America can’t grow in a drought and often try to emigrate to US
I left California because it will look like baja in due time.
Re: The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
#7Well the start isn’t great, just from a scientific perspective:
Before we get into the politics of this argument, let's first go back in time, way back before agriculture, and think about a small band of humans that includes you and me.
The rest is spot on and well written, but I was confused about the tone until the end: this was written before the election, assuming that Trump would lose. It’s all moot now. UBI? Hah, no. RFK Jr is now in charge of “foreign and domestic policy”, even just keeping a few of the consumer protections we have would be a huge surprise; building ones is a fantasy.
There’s only two proven strategies for defeating large authoritarian nations in the modern era, IMO: Cold War and hot war. I recommend anyone who’s read history act accordingly, and choose a place to live unlikely to be targeted by nuclear weapons.
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#8AI generated banner image: immediate skip.
Upvoted because rest of the article is nonsensical as well.
Re: The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
#9A good read. I was a bit saddened while reading the election thread earlier here on HN - there were more authoritarian voices here than I would've hoped.
indeed! HN has gone way to the authoritarian right. Not just socially but also a lot of HN readers favor economically authoritarian policies like tariffs!
Why do you call tariffs authoritarian? I would generally put them in the protectionist basket but I don't see how a country can be authoritarian towards another or either populations by simply imposing tariffs.
Re: The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
#10A good read. I was a bit saddened while reading the election thread earlier here on HN - there were more authoritarian voices here than I would've hoped.
Any examples? Most of the voices I saw were people who wanted to the government to leave them alone.