alphanerd4

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alphanerd4, (edited )

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

You’re not crazy. The rhetorical goal post for why the US is a democracy, and what exactly constitutes ‘Not a democracy’, Has been getting shifted the entire time, as the US blows past it. (lemmy.world)

Like. Half the time they’re not even making an actual argument. people on here do this just every single day. I don’t need to know the hoity-toity 7 to 15 word quip that makes absolutely no sense but fills the place where a logical argument should be....

alphanerd4,

I believe the closest he came to consequences was that the KKK trashed the hotel after a court made him integrate it anyway.

alphanerd4,

Yes. The title is a reference to that. Someone pointed it out on the tumblr post and its like the horror realization. I know how to swim because I got lessons in a public pool in Pittsburgh and there was a camp in michigan coming from that area too that the church helped pay for, but after that: Swim team, boy scouts, private pool, private pool, private swimming club, private pool. … Yeah. That would be why black people can’t swim.

alphanerd4,

I looked into its validity (nothing personal, OP. Standard practice to check)

thats fine. My shtick here is radical reinterpretation of existing evidence. The historical events I draw on should be solid as a rock so i welcome a second pair of eyes.

alphanerd4,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8033e34b-0371-4520-a8ea-b5eadfe05e64.png

vault.fbi.gov/…/view

i mean absolutely no personal disrespect to any of you, but I find myself genuinely coming away with the opinion that this might be the laziest community I have ever been responsible for helping build.

and this is an offshoot of a subreddit

__ The source. of the screenshot. was in . the post. i linked. as source. WHy does this comment have 7 upvotes and no downvOTEs? __

I am not implying dick. edit-They say it right there

==>–> https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4f463fe3-d24d-4bee-aded-e33541ea4791.png

hem to paraphrase:

‘this document is about terrorism’ - ‘specifically anarchists’

they ‘hate authority’ and ‘do crimes’

‘we dont generally care about any of this, but reserve the right to’

‘and courts say thats the end of it’

</paraphrasing>

I know I dont have the final say on anything. that would be weird.

but

This is just an identification guide for symbols.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/afb70369-7ce4-40f3-8825-10d2d78bc9f4.gif

alphanerd4,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e2a342e4-fa82-441e-a22d-1d50a63bb481.png

no they didnt its two pages down the document i am going to cry and throw a fit

alphanerd4,

you are right and I invite you to say it louder.

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