• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Clearly it’s not a place to try and defend America. The mod is probably a tankie dick, but you’re the one who went into their space.

    OP is not even defending (or accusing) USA in that thread. Their only comment there is

    > The US is is an authoritarian state.
    > If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you.
    lmao

    They’re only highlighting the mod’s hypocrisy. Everything else is assumption.

    And the deal applies to the user that the mod is screeching at:

    That couldn’t be more of a strawman even if he was with a lion, a Kansas girl and a tin man on a yellow brick road

    Even if you agree that USA is authoritarian (IDK if the user in question does), the argument in the OOP is bloody idiotic, it’s on the same level as “2+2=7 lol thus whales don’t fly lmao”. And it is a strawman because it mischaracterises why people say that China is authoritarian.