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>elected government Elected in part by the useful idiots on HN and many other places. They were so ignorant of how government actually works they were happy t
by potato3732842 1y ago
>elected government
Elected in part by the useful idiots on HN and many other places. They were so ignorant of how government actually works they were happy to give it this power. They foresaw the jackboot being used to stomp petty criminals and fellow middle class types who don't "pay their fair share". But they had never cracked open a history book because if they had they would know that sort of stuff is never a top priority.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- squigz 1y agoMaybe people are just responding to things like labelling them all as "useful idiots" and "Nazis" and "fascists"
- brookst 1y agoFine, let's call them patriots who are fed up with democracy, limits on governmental power, and the rule of law.
- potato3732842 1y agoWe are all useful idiots, comrade.
- hitarpetar 1y agowhat about snowflake, that's a good one too!
- wpm 1y ago"You called me a nasty name so I'm gonna blow up our 250 year old democracy" There's another word we can call them: juvenile.
- mothballed 1y agoNo a bunch of extremely intelligent and diligent people have been working on that for ages, they just rely on juvenile people voting them into power.
- bigyabai 1y ago50,000 years may come to pass, and nothing will be funnier than HN defending Apple's App Store monopoly one year and then realizing what a catastrophic disaster it was 6 months later. Are we sure that formalized populist regulation is the boogeyman? Like, really absolutely super duper double-checked certain?