• HeartyBeast
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    49 months ago

    You do understand the difference between authority and authoritarianism, right?

    • @[email protected]
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      -19 months ago

      You do understand the similarities between authority and authoritarianism in our current world where oligarchs and billionaires control most of the money and a fair chunk of the security services?

      • HeartyBeast
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        49 months ago

        No. If I’m a doctor with qualifications in microbiology and I tell you that vaccines are important an effective, then I’m it’s worth listening to me because I’m authoritative, more so than the random guy on YouTube. It’s the erosion of **authority ** as a problem that the article is about.