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by Ensorceled 4753 days ago
Oh please. This is childish pedantry, please refute the quote in it's context of government leadership and NOT create a lame scenario where the actual rules don't apply.

If I have absolute power I am NOT going to end up tied to a train track with the Secret Service strangely absent.

The point in this article is that if we are digitally dependent being off the grid, or using an encrypted grid, IS information that can be used to stop an overthrow. You can't be an unstoppable force if you can't coordinate and organize.

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At the risk of increasing my flame-downvote surface...

> The point in this article is that if we are digitally dependent being off the grid, or using an encrypted grid, IS information that can be used to stop an overthrow. You can't be an unstoppable force if you can't coordinate and organize.

Well then why didn't the author just say that? Rather than padding his point with psycho-babble ?

> used to stop an overthrow

I thought we weren't creating lame scenarios where the actual rules don't apply.