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I'm impressed at both how quickly the United States is falling into blatant authoritarianism, and also at how many people seem to make excuses for it.

This country enslaved blacks for hundreds of years, slaughtered the natives and put the Japanese into camps and nuked them twice.

It’s always been authoritarian for those that don’t look right

Nukes were definitely justified. The Japanese almost succesfully coup'd their own emperor to force the fight to go on in spite of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident

They were fanatical and willing to fight to the last man.