invalidusernamelol [he/him]

I love it, that’s insane

This is how it’s supposed to look

I was just summarizing for the people who are too lazy to go read anything and will just stop here

The conversation was you linking a Wikipedia article, I was at least hoping you’d link like a book or something. Like we could have a discussion if you were trying to argue against authoritarianiam as defined by say Bakunin or some other anarchist thinker.

Then I could respond with On Authority which argues that authority is a natural consequence of any organization and calling something authoritarian just means you’re saying that it’s a system that is able to successfully reproduce itself.

You could also try to link “authoritarianism” to fascism, but again that is pointless because there’s already a term for fascism, which is Fascism.

POTUS -> TUSP (The United States President)

CIA -> CAI (Central Agency of Intelligence)

FBI -> BFI (Bureau of Federal Investigation)

It’s fun to just change around acronyms for official governing bodies. I’m gonna go edit Wikipedia to include these as common abbreviations too

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is required reading for any communist

All states are authoritarian. Where do you think all the authority comes from?

A state having authority isn’t always a bad thing though, the current state is really great if you’re a white male property owner!

And those guys won’t be too happy if you take that state away from them, so whatever comes next would need the authority to resist that counter-revolution.

But that’s authoritarian, so we should just let them take back over and keep doing the authoritarianism that supports their interests.

I have yet to actually see a big emote, as the hex bear frontend keeps them small, but this comment out of context is great

Primitive accumulation is a bad term. It works if you’ve read the theory behind it, but otherwise it sounds like someone saving up a bunch of money then starting a successful business compared to what it is which was colonial genocide, enclosure of the commons, and mass starvation as people were ripped from agricultural labor and cast into the factories and mines to work for feudal lords turned industrial capitalists.

I think it’s someone who does a lot of nitrous oxide at Phish concerts

There are many of them!

I’m also very interested in a more clear definition of what this instance considers “Kremlin propaganda”

Is posting Russian music Kremlin Propaganda? Is linking an RT news article Kremlin propaganda? Is Al Jazeera Kremlin propaganda? Is there a list of allowed/non-Kremlin propaganda news sources we need to use?

Is the Kremlin propaganda limited to the past 20 years or is posting old Soviet art and literature also considered Kremlin propaganda? Is posting articles from Seymour Hersch Kremlin propaganda? Is posting Blowback podcast episodes Kremlin propaganda?

Can I share opinions on the works of Lenin and Marx or is socialist literature that came out of the Russian revolution also considered Kremlin propaganda?

This term is incredibly broad and not very useful unless you’re being explicitly anti-communist or are being xenophobic towards Russians.

I understand the sentiment “no propaganda”, but you also never clarified if posting Western propaganda is also taboo. Can I post NPR and Federalist articles? Can I share stuff from BBC and the Economist? Am I allowed to share an NBC story sponsored by Lockheed Martin about the new high tech MANPADS the US is sending to Ukraine?

I just want some clear examples of what is considered propaganda and what the lines on this are.

more specifically I consider the USA (varying by state and location) to be pretty authoritarian in a lot of ways, though they have decent press freedom (even if there are pretty severe issues with copyright and larger media conglomerates being owned by investment corpos), which is kind of an anomaly given many other things like drug laws and police militarisation and such :/ (many other things too)

Damn, you’re like 90% of the way there, but you still only see the trees.

US has no freedom of the press because all media is privately owned and even state media is privately financed. The entire 4th estate is literally just an appendage of the ruling class. Freedom of the press isn’t private ownership of the press, it’s independence and democratic oversight over the press, something that exists in no capacity in America.

In the US you have freedom to purchase the press

I’m so glad Hexbear exists and we have a zero tolerance policy for vaushite pedophiles.

Your distinction really has no meaning when there are places in China where people can be openly LGBTQ same as America with the US being more actively hostile to people in most places.

I’m fine with the use of the term authoritarian if it has actual meaning, but the way it’s used here it’s totally context less unless you just assume whoever is saying it is saying it as a stand in for “not a Western liberal democracy”.

A thing which actually cheapens a term which was meant primarily to refer to fascist dictatorships and feudal dictatorships.

Just basic slurs apparently.

You know, the really important part of free speech.