Oh, well if the CIA said his decades of brutal autocratic power don’t count, I guess that doesn’t what the fuck are you talking about of course he was a textbook dictator.
Amazing how he could do all that while apparently being a totally normal non-autocratic political figure, clearly beholden to democratic workers’ councils below him. Thirty years of unchallenged power (violently suppressing any internal opposition!) and that’s not at all the same thing as dictatorial power over a nation-state.
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i mean, caste systems are a thing that have existed
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Gandhi?
At least until his later years.
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You’ve never seen anyone defend dictatorships?
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Oh, well if the CIA said his decades of brutal autocratic power don’t count, I guess that doesn’t what the fuck are you talking about of course he was a textbook dictator.
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Maybe you’ve never seen Lemmy apologia for repressive totalitarian governance because you don’t own a mirror.
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Amazing how he could do all that while apparently being a totally normal non-autocratic political figure, clearly beholden to democratic workers’ councils below him. Thirty years of unchallenged power (violently suppressing any internal opposition!) and that’s not at all the same thing as dictatorial power over a nation-state.
Do you think hair-splitting is what barbers do?
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