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Postdoc @ Hess Lab @ UC Davis (PhD @ UCSB). Cow gut microbe engineering at the bench, science policy and politics away from it. Opinions my own. Bluesky’s first Anaerobic Fungi Guru. She/her. ☸️ (Jōdo Shinshū)
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Authoritarians - particularly the men, because of how they construct their ideas of masculinity - really don’t *allow themselves* much interiority.
So it’s no surprise they project it out on others.
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Authoritarianism is generally highly misogynist and lends itself to very different modes of expression by gender as a result
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gotta go ride the Yui Rail in Naha, it’s dope
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the fact that there are staffers who are not paying attention to members’ backgrounds disturbs me
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an old crotchety Vulcan marine biologist who SPECIFICALLY researches Earth life and gets into academic arguments with them would be a great deuteragonist
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I was outside, that makes it even worse!
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This statement is ludicrous if you are cognizant of anything that actually happened under Nazi Party rule in Germany
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Words have meanings regardless of your view on them.
Also, Hitler’s attempts to eliminate all opposition to him in the form of banning parties other than the Nazi Party did not eliminate all opposition; it just made it vastly more difficult to organize because it banned legally recognized parties.
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I am unaware of any discourse among actual political scientists in which authoritarian government is explicitly treated as “not politics”.
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Politics is simply, definitionally, power relations.
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I’m pretty sure authoritarian dictatorship is politics.
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Politics doesn’t really select for people who take brave ideological stands. It selects for people who can win elections.
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Organized religions come in a very broad spectrum of authoritarianism even among denominations of the same religion; I suspect you’re thinking of very specific religions here.