We have an Israel first rulership. Every politician pledges allegiance to Israel. Tik Tok ban is because it is not zionist media, and the theory that young people are opposed to genocide is because they use tik tok, even through IDF gloating videos promoting their attrocities are on Twitter too, as are muslim disapprovals of genocide.

You have zero freedom/power to stop your theft of war support of Israel or against Russia, Canada, Greenland, Panama or Europe. Or stopping your nuclear incineration. Citizen's united means only rich people speech counts. Congressional bills in congress will outlaw criticism of zionism/Israel. That you are currently permitted to have sex with people you choose is against the Christofascist agenda that will be pandered to in next 2-4 years. But it is the predetermination of democratic outcomes for the most favourable to Israel, war, oil, and the extreme corruption of by the oligarchy for the oligarchy rule, that makes the US more authoritarian than governments that simply contains divisive distractions, while defending and advancing the country's needs. "Democracy and Freedom" is complete BS used to warmonger those accused of being less liberal than apartheid ethnostate Israel.

You+state approved media have the freedom to say US is not authoritarian, while I'm still allowed to explain reality. But neither of our opinions has any relevance whatsoever on our oppression.

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If everything is shared under communism, that would include political power. thus (imo) communism is a direct democracy.

Edit: forgot what thread I was in. What the hell does communism have to do with US authoritarianism?

Yes.

Yes. Communism was never meant to be authoritarian anyway, it's a classless, moneyless, stateless society. Only some people don't believe in the stateless part.

You're not wrong though. While it might be possible to do in theory people are not that nice or kind, you'll never get everyone to share what they have and not own or try to possess things without an authoritarian government forcing it. Maybe in a more ideal world you could achieve it but that's not the world we live in.

It's not possible with authoritarianism either :)

Unless you count the version everybody insists on calling "social democracy" nowadays. That one can be done.

Traditional communism probably isn't possible but it's near guaranteed that no one in Lemmy wants communism like it's traditionally taught

Edit: the fuck are you doing in a post about USA authorianism