When you definitely know what authoritarian means.
Average Yankistani politician
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Whenever someone says "authoritarian," you can mentally substitute in "Anyone the West doesn't like, regardless of their actual poltics."
Unless that person is also popular with the masses. Then they are an "authoritarian populist" and the people are "brainwashed."
Hey while we're at it, what time is the 4 millionth military flyover at the sports game, again? I need to apply lotion to get ready to jerk off the flag.
Every government has a class character and is authoritarian against a certain class. When they accuse others of being "authoritarian" they really just mean "authoritarian against my social class". To people like her, sending the military to repress a worker's protest is not authoritarian, but redistribution of land is.
How did Chiang Kai-shek become president again?
Pretty sure it was because he ran a solid campaign and focused on the fundamentals
say what you will about mass killing your opponents, but a corpse cannot stand for election in the Republic of China
Air Bud 37: Rockin' in the ROC
EXTREMELY NORMAL for a "democratic leader" to have a monument bigger than the actual emperors'
Sun Yat Sen still has a big one on the mainland, literally built on the same site as a bunch of old emperors. China's just kinda like that I guess.
he was elected, tho
To be fair they built a giant golden mao statue lol
Whenever someone says "authoritarian," you can mentally substitute in "Anyone the West doesn't like, regardless of their actual poltics."
Unless that person is also popular with the masses. Then they are an "authoritarian populist" and the people are "brainwashed."
Hey while we're at it, what time is the 4 millionth military flyover at the sports game, again? I need to apply lotion to get ready to jerk off the flag.
Every government has a class character and is authoritarian against a certain class. When they accuse others of being "authoritarian" they really just mean "authoritarian against my social class". To people like her, sending the military to repress a worker's protest is not authoritarian, but redistribution of land is.