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Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony... by prions on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:04PM (#28393776)
It's really easy to take a both-sides stance here, but the last presidency (ending in that same president causing an insurrection attempt at our capital) shows that one side is clearly more dedicated to authoritarianism than the other - socially, politically, and legally.

People really seem to be hung up on equivocating a sitting president attempting to overturn an election with people on twitter saying mean things.

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Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony... by xkcd-sucks on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:11PM (#28396066)
TBF the Obama administration set some nasty precedents internally (whistleblower prosecutions under espionage act) and externally (assassinations), plus plenty of similar precedents set by previous administrations both D and R
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Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony... by rectang on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:12PM (#28396775)
I don't consider my framing to be a "both-sides" false equivalency — I simply did omitted labels, because I felt that was rhetorically stronger. The framing is entirely compatible with the possibility that one side exhibits much more severe authoritarian tendencies than the other.
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Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony... by redis_mlc on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:17PM (#28393926)
> president causing an insurrection attempt at our capital

The FBI concluded in Aug. 2021 that there was no insurrection attempt.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-e...

Note that Pelosi is still trying to suppress why she didn't provide adequate Capitol security as requested for 100,000 attendees.

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