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  • We don’t live in East Germany. We’re supposed to be living in democracies where our governments act in our best interests, and our rights are not for sale.

    They had this surveillance, on a far greater scale

    This is a mentally-ill level of ignorance. The KGB or Gestapo couldn’t even dream of the surveillance state Western capitalism has already built. They didn’t have tracking devices and microphones in the pockets of most adults on Earth. They didn’t capture millions of data points about all of their daily lives. They didn’t have billion dollar economies structured around the capture and sale of that data. They didn’t have the ability to flag dissidents or resistance autonomously, in real-time based on statistical modeling, or the capability to execute everyone they flag as opposition with cheap fully-autonomous drones. This is called turnkey-totalitarianism. All the tools have already been built. The only thing a tyrant needs to do is turn the key.

    Either educate yourself about the world or keep your ignorance to yourself. Your opinion is currently worthless.



  • It’s almost like our institutions and political class across the developed world are acting on behalf of capital and not in the peoples best interests…

    Maybe that’s why they all collude with surveillance capitalism to violate our civil rights wholesale, and expand the surveillance state…

    These are not the actions of a government “for the people”. These are the actions of criminally corrupt tyrants and traitors who should spend the rest of their lives in prison. The fact that they won’t should tell you everything you need to know about our “democracies”.



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    The difference is that it was historically domestic capital pulling the strings and manipulating politics; unless you were being occupied by a foreign force (colonialism, etc). Foreign entities manipulating domestic politics and economics was generally considered an act of war.

    Now we have multinationals wealthier than nation states, who have seized the means of democracy buy bribing our political classes, and not even domestic capitalists have any allegiance to their nation; just raw unmitigated greed, narcissism, and psychopathy in the name of profit and power. It’s a systemic mental illness.


  • What you’re describing is the theorised end state of capitalism. See crony-capitalism, state-capitalism, plutocracy, kakistrocracy, kleptocracy.

    You can still own private property in a world that outlaws billionaires, requires strong redistribution of wealth, and ensures every large enterprise is democratic, instead of plutocratic. Reality is not binary. But if you don’t accept that the existence of an ultra wealthy elite is an anti-democratic threat to the life and liberty of everyone — to the rule of law and social contract — you’re gonna end up in an authoritarian fascist or communist hellscape run by megalomaniacal psychopaths who don’t care about you, cut from the same cloth as each other. You can either support things that benefit the majority, or boot lick the criminally corrupt. If you choose to lick the boot, don’t be a petty little bitch and complain when the world comes crashing down around you.