• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    The US has done plenty of racist, shitty, inexcusable things. But “authoritarian” doesn’t mean “does racist, shitty, and inexcusable things”.

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      When the state is imposing shitty racist inexcusable policy via the institutions of the bureaucracy, that’s exactly what it means.

      The FBI is authoritarian. The DEA is authoritarian. The DHS is authoritarian. Always have been, since their founding. They exist to extract labor from the political underclass by forcing submission on pain of imprisonment and death.

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      USA hasn’t just done a bunch of racist, shitty, inexcusable things. USA is a bunch of racist, shitty, inexcusable things.

      It’s literally a regime founded by rapist slavers to violently preserve their disgusting privilege. Always been authoritarian.