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I've never seen a ruling class this retarded
Today 3:15 am
While I am generally a cynical pessimist and will unquestioningly assign a high probability to #1, history shows that #2 is almost always the outcome and thus merits deeper examination.
Hubris has an almost mythical reputation of ruining even a mastermind's plan when they are 99 out of 100 steps complete...
Two millennia ago, Roman emperors and nobility took to heart a very simple rule: no matter how corrupt, conniving, and wealth craven you are, you NEVER even THINK to disturb the 2 vital components of social stability and order:
Bread and Circus
The reasoning was simple: no matter how much a certain slice, segment or stratum of society wishes for radical change and upheaval, spiritual and physical inertia keeps people "comfortable" enough to accept their status as delta, gamma, or omega males in the pecking order.
For example, you will observe MAGATs consistently screaming and whinging about how they are "oppressed" by the federal government and the necessity of keeping private firearms to ward off this supposed tyranny. Never mind the fact that most of the tyranny comes from the Cancerous Tumor known as "Late Stage Capitalism" that leads to untenable rises in the cost of living, debt and wage slavery, oppressive taxes on the WORKING class (belied by close to zero taxes on capital owned those who have achieved $50M or more determined by some nominal appraisal of assets).
Does anyone in proper state of mind think MAGATs would use said firearms in any conceivable case to "oppose tyranny" - except in the most dire of circumstances (maybe some SWAT team were deployed to their primary residences...)?
I think not...and besides, we already have the Patriot Act, decades of warrantless surveillance and privacy incursions, government bureaucrats (both R & D) failing to represent their constituents and only representing wealthy parasites who send armies of lobbyists to D.C., etc...I have yet to see any MAGAT oppose this "tyranny."
Please notify me by DM with contrary evidence if you believe I have misjudged MAGATS as cowards and LARPers.
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Hubris has an almost mythical reputation of ruining even a mastermind's plan when they are 99 out of 100 steps complete...
Two millennia ago, Roman emperors and nobility took to heart a very simple rule: no matter how corrupt, conniving, and wealth craven you are, you NEVER even THINK to disturb the 2 vital components of social stability and order:
Bread and Circus
The reasoning was simple: no matter how much a certain slice, segment or stratum of society wishes for radical change and upheaval, spiritual and physical inertia keeps people "comfortable" enough to accept their status as delta, gamma, or omega males in the pecking order.
For example, you will observe MAGATs consistently screaming and whinging about how they are "oppressed" by the federal government and the necessity of keeping private firearms to ward off this supposed tyranny. Never mind the fact that most of the tyranny comes from the Cancerous Tumor known as "Late Stage Capitalism" that leads to untenable rises in the cost of living, debt and wage slavery, oppressive taxes on the WORKING class (belied by close to zero taxes on capital owned those who have achieved $50M or more determined by some nominal appraisal of assets).
Does anyone in proper state of mind think MAGATs would use said firearms in any conceivable case to "oppose tyranny" - except in the most dire of circumstances (maybe some SWAT team were deployed to their primary residences...)?
I think not...and besides, we already have the Patriot Act, decades of warrantless surveillance and privacy incursions, government bureaucrats (both R & D) failing to represent their constituents and only representing wealthy parasites who send armies of lobbyists to D.C., etc...I have yet to see any MAGAT oppose this "tyranny."
Please notify me by DM with contrary evidence if you believe I have misjudged MAGATS as cowards and LARPers.
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