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Sevender's avatar

You’re wrong. Most totalitarian regimes totally back down as soon as everyone complies. Just obey so this can all be over!

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Troy Grice's avatar

...totalitarian regimes exist because "everyone" puts them there in the first place.

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DC Lovell's avatar

I think it has more to do with consolidating power, than everyone puts them there.

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Troy Grice's avatar

I disagree... in part. I postulate there can be no accumulation or consolidation of power without the enablement or acquiescence of the masses. A critical mass of the public must want the dictatorship for it to coalesce.

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A. G. Phillbin's avatar

Disagree. A critical mass needs to acquiesce to it; what they might "want" is irrelevant. When the existing political, social, or economic arrangements no longer have the adherence of the people, a determined minority can impose a new arrangement. Most will take a "wait and see" attitude.

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Troy Grice's avatar

"Wait and see" = "acquiesce." Not sure what your disgreement is, here.

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Troy Grice's avatar

In the words of Jefferson and others, "every nation gets the government it deserves."

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DC Lovell's avatar

Totalitarian regimes back down after everyone complies? Show your work. Give some historical accounting. Good luck with that.

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Sevender's avatar

There’s missing sarcasm, and then there’s missing an entire hemisphere.

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DC Lovell's avatar

and then there is misquoting Jefferson. Has, not gets.

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Gordon Freeman's avatar

I think that was sarcasm...

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lucrezia's avatar

e. pierce's function on the TK threads is akin to the role performed by the "rat" terriers of old farming yore.

Functioning much like a software algorithm, a "troll" terrier

sniffs out "specific patterns of behavior from online trolls, [and] are more likely to focus on a few threads and post irrelevant content, and they have much lower writing quality than fellow commenters (which isn't much of a surprise)."

And while an algorithm won't shit on your rug or dismiss you as a PSYCHOTIC ASSHOLE TROLL...they won't fetch your slippers either.

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Gordon Freeman's avatar

I guess autism has an ugly side...

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Gordon Freeman's avatar

You're an odd little fellow, aren't you?

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Gordon Freeman's avatar

You repeat yourself when under stress...you repeat yourself when under stress...

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L.A. Sanchez's avatar

Chamomile tea

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L.A. Sanchez's avatar

Yikes 😱 lol

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