• Deceptichum@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      You think applying authoritarianism to a government as a whole is stretching the definition to being meaningless?

      Alrighty then.

      • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        No, I think applying it to governments which do not meet the definition of authoritarian makes it meaningless, particularly when there are real authoritarian governments that you can easily contrast to (like for example the one in the country Snowden fled to).