• deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    I could just as easily say “president is untrustworthy by nature” or “king”, “prime minister”, “dictator”, “state”, “soldier”, “police”, ”judge” etc. Dictatorship doesn’t automatically equal “authoritarian tankie evil communism everyone starves”

    Dictatorship by definition means the person or party that dictates. A judge is not authoritarian for providing someone a fair trial regardless of how harsh or fair they are, but they are still dictating a system or an action. So when you hear “dictatorship of the proletariat”, it literally means you and everyone else controls the law. It doesn’t mean you get to decide everything it means that democracy actually involves every single person that participates instead of being “dictated” by money.

    Every country expresses authority in some way, wether it’s USA something like Bay of Pigs, UK with their actions in India and Africa, USSR defeating Nazi armies and liberating concentration camps sometimes WITH the us and British. Technically Warsaw ghetto uprising was “authoritarian” and it was a good thing that they expressed authority on the Nazi regime.

    Just trying to provide some clarity, a lot of people in the US truly have no idea how evil our government is and what they do overseas to help maintain your lifestyle, and it barely does a good job of maintaining our lifestyle. If anything socialist policies are always provably better at building society, and even the bare minimum in the US are people like Mamdani or Walz that prove even if you enact quasi-leftist policies like healthcare you’re an evil communist who likes dictatorship. You’re falling for it but you don’t have to, if you believe in people like AOC and other “progressive” dems like Ilhan Omar in theory you should be unlearning these things you’ve been taught by the right wing American media.

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      22 hours ago

      Dictatorship means there is no accountability. They do as they please no matter what you say. They have zero reason to be trustworthy.

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        16 hours ago

        You are fighting against a tide of trolls or sheep. There is nothing you can do but block these people that try to rationalize away dictators.

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              11 hours ago

              I can’t believe the communists hate freedom so much so sad. I guess sone people just aren’t born with the courage to be free.

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                3 hours ago

                We probably couldn’t have this conversation if you lived in China and you are ok with that. I mean you could sneak around and get away with it probably. FREEDOM!