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LeoPanthera ◴[] No.45279813[source]
One of the very few tech companies who have refused to bend the knee to the United States' current dictatorial government.
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FortuneIIIPick ◴[] No.45280588[source]
Dictatorial suggests a "ruler with total power". The US has three branches of government. That hasn't changed, ever.
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1. izzydata ◴[] No.45280775[source]
The definition of dictatorial government is either a single person or a small group of people. So there being three branches of government doesn't necessarily prohibit a government from being a dictatorship if they are all working together to enact their authoritarian control without constitutional limits.

But really this is just pointless semantics. It doesn't matter what it is called it is still a problem.