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It helps if you look at it from the angle of democracy vs authority, rather than left vs right. Both communists and fascists lean heavily into authoritarianism, making them quite similar in many regards.
It's a tough category out there for "Most meaningless buzzword", but I'd still wager good money on "authoritarianism" taking home first prize
Totalitarianism is even more useless, but authoritarianism is up there
a toddler's guide to ideology
"Our side: cool, democratic, sexy, morally-justified
Their side: dorky, authoritarian, ugly, morally-reprehensible"
You can't define authoritarianism and we all know it. It's just a thought-terminating cliche that you drop in political discussions to make yourself feel comfortable with supporting the status quo.
But America is the most authoritarian country in the world with the most prisoners, police murders, most warlike and belligerent, etc. I guess you made a typo and meant to say that fascists and liberals lean heavily into authoritarianism which makes them quite similar.
“Fascists and communists are the same, excuse me now while I support dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the military and police, make excuses for decades of US-backed anti-democratic coups and genocidal imperialist wars around the world, and support Biden as he continues or intensifies all of Trump’s policies (including caging children).” — liberals
Um, yikes Sweaty!
Don't you know that they're talking about how it's democratic at home?
Sure it might be fascism writ large across every example of our overthrows, invasions, occupations, puppet governments, and the training and funding of death squads (because I'm going to completely ignore the fascism inflicted upon the internal colonies since I'm a middle-class liberal and it isn't relevant to me personally) but that's, like, whataboutism or no true Scotsman or ad hominem or something.
Edit: I called it! I fucking called it.
Yes, a democracy where like 5-7 states decide who the POTUS is, and where someone in California's voted counts 1/3 as much as someone in Wyoming.
The highest stage of democracy is procedural democracy.
Why yes, I am a vooter. How did you guess?
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
But wait, if communists and fascists are the same, then how come the US always supports fascists against communists?🤔
It's a coin toss and somehow the coin has favored the fascists for 100 years straight 🤯
What's authoritarian about criticising NATO?
It's when Mom tells me it's my turn on the Xbox
Correction: It's freedom and democracy when mom says it's my turn on the Xbox, it's Communism and authoritarian when she says it's my brother's turn.
“CoMmUnIsTs ArE ThE SaMe As FaScIsTs”, whoa, what an original thought that we’ve never heard before, did you come up with that all on your own? I’m glad a wise liberal like you is here to enlighten us.
What democracy is involved in the Ukraine war?
When the fascist media corp says that a country is "authoritarian" it means that that country would have authority over them. In fascist countries the ghouls who own the media can pay off the corrupt state officials, in the countries they have called authoritarian, they can not. Anti-authoritarianism by media corpos just means they want to be above the law.
Ofcourse for normal humans this is different, every state would have authority over us.
What is democratic about the current situation:
https://mronline.org/2022/05/07/russia-and-the-ukraine-crisis-the-eurasian-project-in-conflict-with-the-triad-imperialist-policies/
L O L! You gotta wheelbarrow to carry around that giant brain of yours?
What do you call it when a democracy does something authoritarian?
"democracy"
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