how to respond to "communism is totalitarian!" at least we have freedom to dissent with our government!!!!

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Economic hegemony is by far the most useful tool the empire has ever wielded. Didn't the Romans use similar tactics against neighboring cities/states when they were first establishing their control over the Italian Peninsula?

      • carbohydra [des/pair]
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        3 years ago

        National Endowment for Democracy

        (wikipedia is your friend when it comes to acronyms)

        • JuneFall [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Thanks.

          1. I had a glance at Wiki and

          2. I really don't care for non first tongue acronyms which are known in a national context, but not in others.

          • carbohydra [des/pair]
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            3 years ago

            Named entity disambiguation, the task of determining the identity of entities mentioned in text

            lmao meta

            a tip is to first look at the headings, e.g. in this case i think it was pretty obvious that we were talking about organizations