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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All countries are authoritarian by definition

[–] kshade@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Authoritarian doesn't just mean that there is authority.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

Yeah they also have to be a rival of the US and someone we can be racist at

[–] m532@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But what else would it mean? There's three different definitions I know of:

A: it's not a real word

B: it's when authority

C: it's when not ruled by whitey

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

It's for countries whose governments are called regimes

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Then what does it mean?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, it means that there's authority western liberals are opposed to. Authority they like doesn't count