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by Muromec 783 days ago
>You are proposing that you prefer your government to be slow, inefficient, inept, and vulnerable to fraud and corruption.

It's a fair trade off if your target KPI is having zero genocides enabled by extensive records-keeping.

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The US did not require any data crunching from IBM or anyone else to genocide the Indians.

The entire line of thought is straight up propaganda from weird Christians who have a really weird cult belief that some id number is the mark of the beast and saw a great opportunity to lie about the holocaust (plenty of jews were murdered using no better data than "Wilhelm says he saw them praying last Saturday").

You can see the same stupidity in the talking point from 2nd amendment maximalists that the jews were only genocided because they gave up rights to own guns, or something to that effect, as if a population experiencing genocide would have qualms about illegal firearms.

If you think the lack of records-keeping is protection against genocide, or has ever prevented one in the history of the world, then I have some bad news for you.