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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by mensetmanusman on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:47PM (#26318018)
Depends on the definitions.

How would you describe a militia that distrust the authority of the government?

Is that antiauthoritarian?

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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:52PM (#26318098)
No, it's just a preference for a different authority than the status quo government.

Bolsheviks in Czarist Russia weren't anti-authoritarians, they were just preferred a different authority than was established.

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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by mensetmanusman on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:13PM (#26318371)
Isn’t this the case of any system then? If you prefer your own authority, does that make you an authoritarian?
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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:08PM (#26319902)
> Isn’t this the case of any system then?

No, libertarianism/minarchism/anarchism are real belief systems.

> If you prefer your own authority, does that make you an authoritarian?

If you prefer your authority be imposed on others, yes; dictators are very much authoritarians.

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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by x86_64Ubuntu on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:08PM (#26319071)
No. Because in the US we've had such militias/paramilitaries historically, and they largely sought to defend and restore the authoritarian hierarchies of society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_League

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Shirts_(United_States)

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