• Dr Cog
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    8 months ago

    I really don’t understand how they can so rabidly defend atrocious behavior by dictators and strongmen and then claim to be left-wing. Do they not realize these fascists they are defending are right-wing?

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      8 months ago

      Authoritarians care about authoritarianism more than they care about political or ideological differences.

      The authoritarianism is the point. The politics is the justification to be authoritarian.

    • GreenM@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      aren’t strongmen just muscular dudes towing trucks on their back and lifting concrete balls?