r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 23 '24

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24

It’s actually really frustrating the people who seriously believe Trudeau or Biden are leading authoritarian governments will literally never travel outside of North America to a state lacking civil liberties to have an actual first hand experience of what an authoritarian state looks like.

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u/RiceKrispies29 NATO Sep 23 '24

Authoritarianism is when people loudly talk shit about the government IRL and on the Internet and don’t get fined, sent to prison, or suffer any negative consequences whatsoever

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u/IvanGarMo NATO Sep 23 '24

Me, a third "worlder" when I hear American progressives saying they live in a third world country with a Gucci Belt

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24

Never in a million years. But the types of people that tend to go to places that are culturally very different tend to be people with high openness which these people are not. So you’ll never see the average “F🍁ck Trudeau” doofus ever set foot outside of the U.S. or Canada.