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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by m0zg on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:58AM (#28312741)
The worst the government can do in a country with 300M+ guns in circulation is "boil the frog", and hope to dear god the pot does not boil over at any point. It's not a fantasy. It's literally how the US was founded in the first place.
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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by arcticbull on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:06AM (#28312792)
Well, yes, that's how it was founded in the 1700s with slaves, flintlock rifles, no suffrage, and most people had syphilis. A lot has changed since then. Like, well, tanks.

A counter narrative would be the Cultural Revolution as I pointed out. China's population in 1966 at the start of the Cultural Revolution was about 750mm people. By the time Tiananmen Square happened, it was 1.1b people. I'm looking for the numbers but I believe guns were pretty common.

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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by m0zg on Thursday August 26, 2021 @02:36PM (#28318779)
I agree, a lot has changed since then. The governments have gotten a lot more abusive and intrusive, for example.
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