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It's all fun and games until the poor start building guillotines. That's what happens when you push people too far.
by glonq 4y ago
It's all fun and games until the poor start building guillotines.
That's what happens when you push people too far.
- uejfiweun 4y agoNot sure such a thing is possible with the scale and technology of modern society. Instead what I think you’ll see is increasing civil disobedience slowly clawing its way up the class ladder until we either have sufficiently freaked out elites to backpedal on some of these policies, or we go full cyberpunk.
- ryan93 4y agoEvidence of destitution in England? The basics are very cheap, even the "poor" there just want prepackaged food.
- paxys 4y agoHad to start a revolution when the ruling class has ensured that every small town police department is equipped to the teeth with military equipment and everyone is under 24/7 surveillance. The French didn't have this problem in 1789.
- mydogcanpurr 4y agoHard to suppress one when everyone has a gun and knows where you live (from the perspective of the police)
- tshaddox 4y agoWouldn’t the armories of those small police departments then be where such revolutions would begin springing up, either with or without the support of the small town police?