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Somehow this country is excluded from it:

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 59 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Also the chart for:

Government vs Regime

Freedom fighter vs Terrorist

Expat vs Immigrant

Child vs Combat-age male

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 22 points 5 days ago

Trusted source vs Propaganda outlet
Media regulation vs State censorship
Rule of law vs Human rights violations

We should really document this language.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 29 points 5 days ago

Police vs security forces

Intelligence services vs secret police

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago

Ummmm achually America has become authoritarian under trump smuglord it wasn't before though

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

inb4 tWo ThINgS CaN bE trUE liberals

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Since 1945... up to 2004 (according to the sources)

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 22 points 6 days ago

Was wondering why it looked so sparse

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Russia gets called authoritarian every day

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

yeah but Russians are considered Asiatic mongrels by the Europeans, they're the orcs and aren't really white you see

[–] icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

the whole orc narrative and Russian hordes narrative has very much been embraced by western media over the past four years https://web.archive.org/web/20260414080035/https://spectator.com/article/why-are-ukrainians-calling-russian-invaders-orcs/?edition=us

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Since when is the WSJ European?

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Europe is a vestigial organ of amerikkka, all their political opinions that don't arise out of some petty medieval ethnic feud are imported directly from us. We tell them to fuck their economies by cutting Russian gas, they do it.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tasmania deftly evading American targeting while the rest of Australia falls victim

[–] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Unconditional support for the Tasmanian devil independence!

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not always the defining factor (see East Germany) but it definitely amplifies the existing class hatred

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was the Slavic Asiatic Hordes influence in DDR.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

Mein gott, how they ruined our glorious master race