• JordanFalcon@lemmy.world
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      Sometimes it is necessary for the long term good of humanity. Saying ‘we can’t use authoritarianism to beat authoritarians’ is the logic that got the nazis in power in Germany. The nazis should have been crushed early on, but instead liberals just kept appeasing them.

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        Historically authoritarians tend not to return control to democratic processes. That is to say, you become the threat you’re trying to avoid.