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Re:Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penal... by colechristensen on Saturday April 08, 2023 @06:35PM (#35498314)
To be clear, I’m explicitly calling out the average liberal as increasingly advocating for authoritarian solutions on many societal issues. Not the fringe, not a few, but the majority of the political left in the US. Do other people not see this?
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Re:Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penal... by tadfisher on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:08PM (#35499220)
You're going to have a hard time convincing others without naming those solutions and the mainstream liberal figures who support them.

In my experience, there's nothing exceptional about American liberalism in contrast with most of the Western world, while American conservatism has an unhealthy obsession with authoritarian solutions to problems that aren't problems: transgender people, women who don't want to be pregnant, people who want to marry those of the same sex, and books about any of the above that children might read.

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