• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    When Liberals say dictator, they mean 1 dude who can unilaterally decide policy for the entire country without anyone having any recourse. None of the executives of any communist country have that power. If they did, China wouldn’t give in to protests to end COVID restrictions and Cuba wouldn’t need to get the population to support constitutional referendums to give LGBT+ people rights, they’d just do it by dictate.

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      I don’t think liberals even know what they’re talking about anymore. They still call themselves “left” while supporting blocking the rail strike in 2022 and Biden going around congress twice to ship weapons to be used in a genocide. They’ve completely lost the plot.

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      You know they welded doors to people’s apartments during covid right? What kind of non dictatorial move is that? Or like crushing the people who wanted to be free from china’s rule in hongkong

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        Freedom to not be welded into your apartment building after you go around spreading covid is mutually exclusive with the freedom to not get a deadly disease from someone who knows they have a deadly disease and refuses to quarantine.

        Which one is more authoritarian?