Europe has some authoritarian governments, not totalitarian dictatorships

Totalitarianism is always when the other guy does it. Never question the modem day police/surveillance state at home. Certainly don’t ask about our colonies abroad, or their paramilitary death squads and torture prisons financed with domestic capital.

Lemmy definitely has a tankie infestation

It’s got an anti-war infestation that’s regularly accused of being tankies for failing to clap for the correct set of tanks.

Normal regulatory duties of a government are a far cry from the state having total ownership and control of business

Calmly explaining this to my US Postal Service and my Tennessee Valley Authority