Post #2744484
2026-05-21 18:09 UTC
Becoming? So it wasn’t authoritarian when black people were routinely beaten by police for drinking from the wrong fountain or looking at a white person wrong?
Or perhaps the genocidal occupation of the Philippines. Not authoritarian?
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@Egriaga@lemmy.ml 2026-05-21 18:17
Again it’s a spectrum, and yes it was authoritarian then. One could even make the argument the last time we weren’t authoritarian was in the early days of the republic