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Advocating that we should eat bugs and not own anything is a pretty serious infringement of personal liberty.
by _mlbt 1y ago
Advocating that we should eat bugs and not own anything is a pretty serious infringement of personal liberty.
- mindslight 1y agoI don't see how advocating those things is itself an infringement of personal liberty. Are you coming from the all-too-common place of equating speech with violence? You've also missed my main point three times now while actually leaning into the exact dynamic I've described, and so I'm having a hard time interpreting your comments as earnestly condemning authoritarianism.
- _mlbt 1y agoSorry, I worded that poorly. Advocating is not the infringement, implementation of what they advocate for would be a major infringement. I think we’re just continuing to talk past each other though. I’ve explained how WEF’s flavor of authoritarianism differs from MAGA’s to the best of my ability, but I understand if my explanations are insufficient.
- mindslight 1y agoI never asked how the flavors are different. The flavors are obviously different. And on this, you haven't made any points that I wasn't already aware of. What I have been asking you is why you are choosing to emphasize the differences between the flavors, rather than focusing on their overall commonalities. You came into this thread, ostensibly about the right-flavored authoritarianism currently on the rise in the West, with a whatabout left-flavored authoritarianism. Your subsequent comments have been narrow critiques of left-flavored authoritarianism, indistinguishable from support/marketing of right-flavored authoritarianism. In terms of actually criticizing authoritarianism in general, you can see how that pattern might come off as a bit disingenuous, right?