• will@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I can think of some very pro-authoritarian US politicians in recent memory who committed acts that could be considered treasonous without too much stretching of the definition

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      1 month ago

      The actors involved could be very authoritarian, but the crime of betraying the existing authority, is still anti-authoritarian.

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        1 month ago

        Ah that makes sense. I didn’t read the chart that way