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The hardest challenge for most westerners to pass. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Authoritarian in the modern day is only used by westerners to denigrate countries that build alternatives models outside the western order (Cuba, Vietnam, PRC, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, etc), so much so that it basically means: "when you tell white people they can't do imperialism".

Somehow, this country is excluded from its definition: