• oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Authoritarianism isn’t a very good measure of government, when a monopoly on violence is one of the defining characteristics of a state. The difference is often more perception than it is reality, and even then tyrants can be vastly different from each other. Abraham Lincoln had Northern dissenters killed, and suppressed peoples rights, yet he was still a peak president.

      Richard Nixon is the Shah. Saddam Hussein is the Shah. Modern Spain had death squads killing political opponents in my lifetime. Where isn’t lead by the Shah?

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      Genghis Khan and Hitler were both authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.

      Therefore, Genghis Khan invaded Poland in 1939 and put European Jews in concentration camps. They are identical.

      I’m not talking about moral equivalence! You used the wrong term for the current head of state of Iran. Just learn and move forward, and stop acting like an arrogant ass when corrected.

      I’m sorry if I sounded smug when I called out your initial error.

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        Yeah and they are identical too. I wasn’t referring to the head of state, I was insulting how the Iranian revolution replaced its tyrant with another tyrant.

        All tyrants are the same. Their title is bullshit.