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What Authoritarian means to most westerners (lemmy.ml)
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Somehow this country is excluded from it:

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Also the chart for:

Government vs Regime

Freedom fighter vs Terrorist

Expat vs Immigrant

Child vs Combat-age male

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago

Police vs security forces

Intelligence services vs secret police

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

Trusted source vs Propaganda outlet
Media regulation vs State censorship
Rule of law vs Human rights violations

We should really document this language.

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

inb4 tWo ThINgS CaN bE trUE liberals

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 week ago

are you ok?

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

Ummmm achually America has become authoritarian under trump smuglord it wasn't before though

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since 1945... up to 2004 (according to the sources)

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 22 points 1 week ago

Was wondering why it looked so sparse

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Russia gets called authoritarian every day

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

yeah but Russians are considered Asiatic mongrels by the Europeans, they're the orcs and aren't really white you see

[–] icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Source?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

the whole orc narrative and Russian hordes narrative has very much been embraced by western media over the past four years https://web.archive.org/web/20260414080035/https://spectator.com/article/why-are-ukrainians-calling-russian-invaders-orcs/?edition=us

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since when is the WSJ European?

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Europe is a vestigial organ of amerikkka, all their political opinions that don't arise out of some petty medieval ethnic feud are imported directly from us. We tell them to fuck their economies by cutting Russian gas, they do it.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tasmania deftly evading American targeting while the rest of Australia falls victim

[–] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Unconditional support for the Tasmanian devil independence!

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not always the defining factor (see East Germany) but it definitely amplifies the existing class hatred

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was the Slavic Asiatic Hordes influence in DDR.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Mein gott, how they ruined our glorious master race