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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 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Which is why there wasn't really a set of hairless apes that were in charge. They had a fully direct democracy.

	▲	gus_massa 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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]