it's also very funny watching the centrists feign surprise that a society boiled in anticommunist propaganda for decades would balk at the image of a column of tanks entering the nation's capital for a military parade
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there is unironically a part of me that hopes the parade goes off without a hitch just so we can add a new flag to the authoritarian parade stock image folder
nuance is hard in a post, what i really mean is that's the image of "authoritarian regimes" as presented to the american public since the dawn of the cold war. it's what normies imagine when they think about authoritarianism
It's all they can think, because "authoritarianism", like "totalitarianism", is a fake term with no real meaning apart from whatever the media happens to present under it
oh for sure, it's just over here as a weenie european, my first visit to america was "uh. why are all the flags here. why are there pictures of the presidents on the wall. why do the military go first"
i know tanks on dc is a thing but it really doesn't feel out of place as much over here
oh 100%, america has been authoritarian to one extent or another since its inception. tanks rolling down constitution ave is gonna be a new sight though
Which is ironic, because militarism is in fact far more embedded in every day American culture than in most "authoritarian" ones, where the military has a pretty clear reason for existing
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i know tanks on dc is a thing but it really doesn't feel out of place as much over here
World Surprised at Tanks In DC: "I thought you did this every Sunday, except when the Superbowl is on. First time? Are you sure?"
and as you say, it's because tanks are synonymous with authoritarians to american centre