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>A Turnkey totalitarian state exists, who is going to turn that key?

A totalitarian that will be recognized as such.

The plausible deniability of the status quo is worth quite a bit.

[hatenberg]

Oh I think a certain presidential candidate is running under the “let’s stop pretending” thing. So in half a year we’ll know.

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I dont see the "Look there a three headed monkey" type of tribalism distraction to be a future proof plan.

The attention economy overdid it. And corruption bloomed as a result. Which is typical for a totalitarian rise. Kleptocracies without checks and balances dont work and its quite visible to the outside.

Its just not a sensible path to go down on. Even looking past ethical and human perspective, totalitarianism is at its core dysfunctional.

[hatenberg]

The motivation of a late 70s old person is probably not being future proof