lmao of course half of the 14 year olds he babysits are subtlety missing the point in the common "wow why does she have to lie, just tell the true about how awful North Korea is" way
But nevertheless this is what a functional leftist pipeline looks like
Authoritarian theoretically refers to a set of real potential qualities, but when someone says "authoritarian" instead of one of those qualities, they are usually doing vibes-based politics. Same with "freedom". It's a real set of things, but if you don't specify what in that set you're referring to, you aren't trustworthy.
Same with every value liberals profess to believe in.
I know I've suggested (in lib spaces) that we're "Authoritarian" with respect to property rights. That's what we use the violent force of the state on, there's no political parties that promise to radically change the nature of private property, almost all of our politicians have a lot of property, you can discuss abolition of private property but not "seriously". I live in Australia. haven't seen a good response to it yet. idek if anyone reads my ramblings