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Mathematics will not protect you from people with guns. They will just outlaw your mathematics, and you will get sent for re-education. It would be nice if we

• commandlinefan 5y ago
  You can't send people you can't find to re-education camps.
  • adventured 5y ago
    They will always find you if it matters for them to do so. If you don't matter, sure, you can continue to hide in quasi anonymity in the noise. That's only because they don't have a reason to pursue you. Authoritarian systems turn the people into the ultimate snitching devices. People learn to be careful with computing devices, it's your own trusted family or neighbor or friends that will burn you. Society gets sculpted to reinforce government policies. That happens in all authoritarian systems. You could even see it in the psycho-rabid mask people, in how batshit crazy irrational they've become. They're wildly emotional lunatics unable to comport themselves as normal humans. They can't think rationally any longer, because they've been driven into a frenzy. The propaganda terrorism scare tactics used on the US population after 9/11 had somewhat similar effects. Authoritarian systems always produce large numbers of those people, they act as an extension of the group/person in power to enforce ideology, laws, religion, behavior, you name it.
• unityByFreedom 5y ago
  The pen is mightier than the sword. Authoritarians fear information.