Pagliacci

I enjoyed the original playthrough despite all it's warts, been waiting for it to get to "2.0" before picking it up again. Will have to wait to hear reviews on it, obviously, but everything sounds good so far.

I know Wikipedia isn't the ultimate arbiter of truth, but this is how it's article on Fascism begins, and I think it would be fairly common for people to consider fascism a form of authoritarianism:

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

FWIW I'm not meaning to attack democracy here, I find it to be far preferable to the other systems we have at our disposal. But it is a tool that can be used for good or bad.

How so? If the majority votes in authoritarian laws that are violently enforced on minority populations, is that not authoritarian?

That answer assumes democracy can't be authoritarian, which isn't true.

A large part of Trump's initial rise was "draining the swamp", right? Cleaning up the corrupt of D.C.

If we can't indict a former President for stealing nuclear secrets, what the fuck are we even doing here?

If anything I think that'll be what us users end up calling ourselves.

Getting signed up was a bit hairy. I tried going through the lemmy.one server and still hasn't gone through, so I went back and signed up through lemmy.ml and that got approved pretty quickly.

Aside from that still getting a hang of things. Not sure how to search for communities for specific interests, not sure how many of those exist yet.

I downloaded the Jerboa app on Android and the UI is pretty familiar coming from the Boost reddit app.