Yeah, that sounds interesting.
That was the fucking point of all this, right ? Like ‘how dare the poors slip through some material change in conditions through gov power’. ‘We’ll show them’ and then they did all of this
Yeah that’s an important thing I have to address. Why do people think that authoritarianism means someone being mean to them?
Edit: I shouldn’t be that sour about it. Definitions are super important part and I’ve seen this coming for months., But there does seem to be like a rather substantive difference between like political science definitions of authoritarianism versus like general use public definitions. Like the general public seems to be really about like on an individual level, and I just don’t think that’s super helpful when you’re talking about governmental structure. there’s a little bit of overlap, but that’s not what the focus of most of the academic writing on the subject is so what pops up on Google when you just google “authoritarian“ is not the definition I’m operating off of, no.
Edit2: But yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah, the US being both a democracy and massively a fan of authoritarian governance is exactly what the memes about and you know trying to talk to anybody about that really seems to be like half of people take it as such a given like your baby for not having gotten over that when you were a kid and the other half like consider it an assault against the soul of America
yeah, that’d be great.
thank you so much for adding this. i bet this is earth shattering for a lot of people. and then maybe some context for the other part still wondering why we’re talking about it
its because of the cost of housing
they define it in the paper, its not having to use more than 50% of your income for housing.
frfr its kind of staying in because it quadruples engagement. i like that tiktok headcannon
booo
counterpoint, its not either or. this is a false dichotomy the democrats created and maintain as a rhetorical device to silence dissent. i will never vote for joe biden. ill vote for…, a couple of democrats down ballot. and that is the extent of my interaction with the legitimate systems of democracy in the US. if you dont live in a swing state, the presidential race is, effectively, not real for you. this is a basic tenant of “american electoral politics” , or as I like to call it, a tenant of US Authoritarianism
first result on duckduckgo my man https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades
hell yea
new to the platform, my apologies.
man.,
maybe i just feel like it should be.
edit: it was when i was a kid :(
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we laugh, tho that is verbatim populism
Damn , reading some of these comments is like fanfiction about myself and it’s kind of wild actually. I am everyone until you go and check D: