10 Telltale Signs Of Dangerous Authoritarianism
Someone you don't like won an election because more people voted for him: This should never be allowed to happen in a democracy.
People walking around smiling and enjoying their lives: Those poor, uninformed victims of oppression.
A TV show that lost $40 million a year got canceled: What are late-night talk shows supposed to do now? Be funny?
Literal concentration camps being built in the imaginations of journalists: Few things are more terrifying than literal imaginary things.
A super-hot actress did an ad for jeans: No one wants to live in a world where they have to look at attractive people.
Police trampling on the rights of hardworking carjackers and muggers: True freedom means never being arrested.
Jews are openly welcomed on university campuses: How far the education system has fallen.
Funding for Iraqi Sesame Street cut: Who will teach the little children their Alif, Baa, Taa's?
Food stamps no longer allowed to be used for Skittles: Fascists are waging war on the rainbow in more ways than one.
People you disagree with get to say stuff: How can anyone think this is fair?
People walking around smiling and enjoying their lives: Those poor, uninformed victims of oppression.
A TV show that lost $40 million a year got canceled: What are late-night talk shows supposed to do now? Be funny?
Literal concentration camps being built in the imaginations of journalists: Few things are more terrifying than literal imaginary things.
A super-hot actress did an ad for jeans: No one wants to live in a world where they have to look at attractive people.
Police trampling on the rights of hardworking carjackers and muggers: True freedom means never being arrested.
Jews are openly welcomed on university campuses: How far the education system has fallen.
Funding for Iraqi Sesame Street cut: Who will teach the little children their Alif, Baa, Taa's?
Food stamps no longer allowed to be used for Skittles: Fascists are waging war on the rainbow in more ways than one.
People you disagree with get to say stuff: How can anyone think this is fair?
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