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>it's like wtf leave it alone guys, we are not in north Korea we will eventually get everything they have in NK/China/Russia/Iran, under a thin veneer of being
by throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
>it's like wtf leave it alone guys, we are not in north Korea
we will eventually get everything they have in NK/China/Russia/Iran, under a thin veneer of being done for our own good and accompanied by a mass media campaign that will convince a sizeable population of useful idiots to accept it all.
the venerable western democracies hate and fear dissent as much as those loathsome dictators do
- avmich 4y ago> the venerable western democracies hate and fear dissent as much as those loathsome dictators do Who specifically hate and fear dissent in western democracies, and what's the mechanism against that?
- throwaway0x7E6 4y ago>Who specifically hate and fear dissent in western democracies the people and entities in power >what's the mechanism against that? disarming the population
- rnk 4y agoI don't buy that as a general principal. You get the odd fascist leader of democracies that wants to do that in say Hungary, Turkey, even the US got a whiff of it. But most people and most politicians actually like democracy and support the ideas around it, they want to be left along and live in peace and prosperity. Pols want power and to crush the other political side in parliment, but ending public dissent is not the plan of most political parties or politicians.