I would consider authoritarian a useless word for describing them. Sure, you could call them that and it would fit, but it says very little about them and fails to distinguish them from other states.

All states are authoritarian. Holding and exerting authority is the point of a state. The state exists as a tool for a class to express its authority over the other.

This same issue applies to the term dictatorship as well. When we hear the term authoritarian we must ask authority for whom. When we hear the word dictatorship we must ask what group is dictating and to what end.

Until the state is abolished every society is authoritarian and a dictatorship. So what’s the point of the descriptor?

Edit: if I have been too vague I’m happy to elaborate further

Makes for great justification of hierarchy

Did not take this to be homophobic at first glance but I’ve now had 2 people mention it. Should I remove?

I saw it more as like, open submission to fascism.

Also can’t believe I just got called a liberal

Definitely not how I understood this. Saw this as more representative of submission to fascism

It is

I’ve just never enjoyed his content tbh. He also encourages faith in American electoralism to an extent that makes me uncomfortable and participates in drama slop too much for me to enjoy.

I know that last bit may seems strange considering what I have posted but I generally do not directly consume internet drama. I have never seen anything from the channels of either of these people. I just hear about it from other people and go, haha funny.

Odysseus is clearly pulling you out of the tar pit

I’m not personally a fan

I meant vaush, I know enough about Hasan to know he didn’t do that shit lol

I have never looked into the evidence so I couldn’t be certain. How bad is it…

My placement on this scale will remain unknown unsaid…

Hasan (left) and Vaush (right). They are streamers and you kinda have to be terminally online to get the joke. Hasan was recently accused of electrocuting his dog on stream, though without much evidence, and Vaush is allegedly into zoophilia

They gave one to Henry Kissinger

Its a reference to how the balkan peninsula, specifically former yugoslavia, was broken into a multitude of weaker independant states primarily by exploiting ethnic tensions. This allowed western capital to exert significant influence on the political-economy of these countries in a way they could not when they were united. As these new states fought eachother and destroyed themselves foreign capitalist bought up their economies and to this day remain significant employers in the region; allowing them to extract wealth they couldn’t have without balkanization and the violence that came with it.

It essentially boils down to the divide and conquer strategy. I honestly don’t believe the west is currently capable of accomplishing this in Russia no matter the outcome of the Ukraine war. The Balkans have a history of nationalist movements and a dense diversity of cultures that made them much more vulnerable to this strategy than modern Russia would be.

Where did you get the idea that this was supposed to be ML or exclusive to any specific leftist ideology for that matter? /gen

I feel like i’m missing context for this comment

It always amazes me how class contradictions can twist and warp any religion into a tool of oppression. I’ll never understand how the ruling class can soothe their cognitive dissonance so thoroughly

Jokes on them I’m unemployed

Even if they paid attention, the history being taught to them was probably not very good

There were many attempts to assassinate Hitler during the third reich and most plots originated from within the upper command. This should not be seen as attempts to end fascism and stop the war by killing Hitler. These were attempts to usurp Hitler in order to gain his position and, from the perspective of the plotters, provide more reliable leadership so that the war could be won. Heusinger plotting to kill Hitler is not an implication that he had renounced Nazism nor does it absolve him of his many crimes against humanity. No one like this should ever have even been considered for another position of power in any capacity. Imo, he should have been shot and the fact that he wasn’t is a weakness of liberalism

Literally no where did they say or suggest that