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by gus_massa 572 days ago
The hairless apes that are in charge have a very long and consistent history of power abuse.

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Everyone has a remote kill switch in their spinal cord. Once the goverment decides to be evil, any rebel will get their legs instructed to walk to a pea facility for "reeducation".

Compared to this scenario, 1984 is almost as optimistic as Equilibrium.
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monocasa 571 days ago
Which is why there wasn't really a set of hairless apes that were in charge. They had a fully direct democracy.
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gus_massa 571 days ago
Who selects the questions people vote? What happens when they get something like this in the screen in the middle of a football match:

> We have preliminary evidence that XYZ is a terrorist and we are sending him to a nice special house with a swimming pool to protect everyone until the investigation finishes. [OK] [Ask me later]

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