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Re:NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for ... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:58AM (#14409037)
Yeah, well. They can because of the "much worse conditions". If you push people hard enough so they aren't fulfilling the lowest level of Maslow's pyramid, you'll get your bloody revolution. NSA issues is way too abstract for that.
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Re:NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for ... by coldtea on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:33AM (#14410275)
>Yeah, well. They can because of the "much worse conditions". If you push people hard enough so they aren't fulfilling the lowest level of Maslow's pyramid, you'll get your bloody revolution.

I'll have to disagree with that. People often stay subservient when in dire conditions, but also have been known start a revolution for mild (or stronger) discomforts. Mankind is not driven by "bread" that predictably.

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