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[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Governments

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Religious governments. Including the US one and every other one that lets religion influence policy

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There have been some bad ones. But do they measure up to these?

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

If you consider Imperialism a religion yes. Imperialism so often adopts the predominant religion (Nazi, U.S., H.R.E.) or directly competes with it (eastern bloc communism) that I don't think it's an unreasonable position.

Perhaps we should blame the root cause here: non-representative authoritarianism. The taking of power not given.