randint

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Careful calling those regimes authoritarian. Hexbears like to attack this point by assigning a slightly different definition to authoritarian and then either (a) claim that all governments are "authoritarian" or (b) blame liberals for using this word to demonize socialist states. I once saw someone cite https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Authoritarianism to "prove" that those states are not authoritarian.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, the Chinese government is totally very democratic and is receptive to the criticism of its citizens! They never censor words and topics they don't like on their social media platforms!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know right! Even though I agree with some of the viewpoints, I would rather not see so much discussion about capitalism, communism, or politics in general. BTW, the word is "systematically."

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally said that they might as well leave lemmygrad.ml and make a new account on Hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah I see, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But then what the other commenter said would basically be "Both Wikipedia and Prolewiki are biased, but Wikipedia is biased to the wrong direction. I like Prolewiki's bias more than I like Wikipedia's bias. Therefore, Wikipedia is not reliable on the topic of Authoritarianism."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Ok, maybe Wikipedia is biased, but I want to hear your arguments on why Prolewiki is not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Prolewiki, lmao great source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What you're saying basically is

If I lean more left than someone, they must be one of those MAGA conservative Fox news fanatic.

You might as well go make an account on hexbear.net.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You're the one that tells everyone you don't agree with to go watch Fox News. Just in case you didn't know, that is not a compelling argument at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Yes, instead of Wikipedia let's just use this random wiki that is heavily biased toward those authoritarian states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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