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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The hilarious thing about this is that the modern authoritarian doesn't respect the engineer or the scientist either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Outside of very ancient times, where many regimes we consider authoritarian were closer to an electoral technocracy anyway, I don't think even half of the totalitarian governments respected science or technology. And when they did, it was usually because somebody was forcing the leader's hand.

It's more of a trait of democracies.