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  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It’s more an Authoritarian thing than a Right thing, it’s just that currently Auth-Right is what the Epstein class are pushing.

    The Khmer Rouge were as hard left as it gets, and the Cambodian genocide was almost entirely fuelled by the notion that educated city folk weren’t true Khmer.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      24 hours ago

      It’s no coincidence that Russia is hard right, and so are its stooges in Europe and the US. Maybe theoretically they might support some left authoritarians too, but they don’t right now to any significant extent.

    • reka@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Probably a wise angle to take. You don’t have to be an open-borders advocating, staunch socialist to be against authoritarianism. Quite a significant straw man, even if there’s visible correlation in modern times.