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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm coming to understand what they mean by authoritarian is "unfair."

it's more nuanced than that for example the fact America only has two parties with any chance of success is unfair, the fact the UK has a heritary monarch who is above the law and a place for heritary aristocrats within the legislature is unfair

neither of these countries are called authoritarian

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

what I mean is unfair for liberals. If liberals see that a country has mechanisms in place to curtail or dismiss ideological liberals, then it's authoritarian. You're right that it's nuanced too, because it's a term almost exclusively used for countries that aren't white.