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After the events in Ukraine and with Putin’s needless and unprovoked war, can we all agree that this is what authoritarian looks like and it’s not at all the same as what happened with the Canadian truckers?
Every government actions has some level of authoritarianism in it, that’s just the nature of the beast.So anything short of unprovoked war can not be considered authoritarian?
I seriously doubt that a certain segment of the population will agree.After the events in Ukraine and with Putin’s needless and unprovoked war, can we all agree that this is what authoritarian looks like and it’s not at all the same as what happened with the Canadian truckers?
I hate being right all the time.So anything short of unprovoked war can not be considered authoritarian?
And remember, he also had majority support of "voters" to declare himself President for the next 15 years in a supposed democracy.After the events in Ukraine and with Putin’s needless and unprovoked war, can we all agree that this is what authoritarian looks like and it’s not at all the same as what happened with the Canadian truckers?
Every government actions has some level of authoritarianism in it, that’s just the nature of the beast.
But what Putin is doing should give people perspective and hopefully enough perspective to know that what happened with the truckers doesn’t qualify versus the real thing.
If the left blockades something and are then handed nice notes to leave and given multiple chances, only to finally reluctantly be dispersed, then yes they would be hyperbolic for making such a claim.I'll remember that when the left whines about any little thing that the GOP does is authoritarian.
Authoritarian and authority are not the same thing. Viewing moderate authority as authoritarian repression is a long practiced extremis reaction, common to Libertarians and partisan opponents. If a government they hate says "you have to stop at red lights", to them it's tyranny. I remember new curly light bulbs being a major Republican cause claiming they were tyranny.Every government actions has some level of authoritarianism in it, that’s just the nature of the beast.
If the left blockades something and are then handed nice notes to leave and given multiple chances, only to finally reluctantly be dispersed, then yes they would be hyperbolic for making such a claim.
That’s only because the donations were illegal and GSG tried to ignore it.I'm pretty sure the authoritarian claims were about the bank accounts getting frozen
After the events in Ukraine and with Putin’s needless and unprovoked war, can we all agree that this is what authoritarian looks like and it’s not at all the same as what happened with the Canadian truckers?
I'll remember that when the left whines about any little thing that the GOP does is authoritarian.
I'll remember that when the left whines about any little thing that the GOP does is authoritarian.
Not "any little thing"....BIG things, which you're fully aware of.
No.After the events in Ukraine and with Putin’s needless and unprovoked war, can we all agree that this is what authoritarian looks like and it’s not at all the same as what happened with the Canadian truckers?
If you are calling mask mandates "tyranny" or comparing them to the holocaust, what would you call Russia's invasion of Ukraine?So anything short of unprovoked war can not be considered authoritarian?
After the events in Ukraine and with Putin’s needless and unprovoked war, can we all agree that this is what authoritarian looks like and it’s not at all the same as what happened with the Canadian truckers?
That’s only because the donations were illegal and GSG tried to ignore it.
Please show me documentation of this assertion that they were an occupying force and not simply conducting an illegal protest and blockade.They were only illegal because the truckers were labeled as an "occupying force", so the Russia comparison might not be far off
They no longer differentiate true from false.After the events in Ukraine and with Putin’s needless and unprovoked war, can we all agree that this is what authoritarian looks like and it’s not at all the same as what happened with the Canadian truckers?
They are trying to do the same with the word racism as wellThey no longer differentiate true from false.
They will happily claim the two scenarios are indistinguishable examples of "authoritarianism".
Any law that's enforced, to them, becomes "authoritarianism", and thus the word no longer means what it actually means. They redefined words to the point they are contradictory and no longer have meaning.
After the events in Ukraine and with Putin’s needless and unprovoked war, can we all agree that this is what authoritarian looks like and it’s not at all the same as what happened with the Canadian truckers?
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