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The government has more guns than your garden variety rich guy.
by DenisM 6y ago
The government has more guns than your garden variety rich guy.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoMore to the point, the government has the socially assigned role of deciding whether anyone’s use of said guns is legal or not.
- some_random 6y agoI _wish_ guns were required to cause harm to others.
- jancsika 6y agoI love the presence of this talking point here because its usefulness is self-refuting in this case. 1. To guard against tyranny, always focus more on government overreach than corporate overreach because the government is the one with the guns. 2. Corporations scooping up endless streams of data don't get the same level of scrutiny and pithy talking points from libertarians as the entity with the guns. 3. Class of data-mining corporations collect so much data that it's functionally equivalent to a tyrannical government demanding direct access to everyone's location data. 4. The government-- the entity with the guns that we want to protect ourselves against-- simply buys access to the data from corporations to get around the law. 5. We've done a poor job of guarding against tyranny! Edit: clarification