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by ip26 1183 days ago
Congratulations, you’ve managed to construct this into a classic “with us or against us” framework, a popular tool among authoritarians.
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It's two diametrically opposed political ideals, with most people (and governments) falling somewhere in between the two extremes. That's the framework that already exists, not something I've constructed to divide people.

If you truly support democracy, then you accept that even the authoritarians should be given a voice, and you just pray they're not in the majority. That's very different than the "with us or against us" paradigm that's popular among authoritarians.

> If you truly support democracy, then you accept ...

Heh Heh Heh

That sounds like you just did the "with us or against us" thing the commenter above you just pointed out.

Very ironic. ;)

> a popular tool among authoritarians

And a popular tool among the so called "democracies".