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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by bluescrn on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:51PM (#45997541)
People fantasize about revolution, but the reality would mostly be huge amounts of suffering and death.

And there's near-zero chance that the outcome would be the 'high-tech fully-automated luxury communism' that people dream of. There's many much-more-likely outcome that are worse than what exists now.

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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by creata on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:02PM (#45997683)
> the reality would mostly be huge amounts of suffering and death.

I think many of the people fantasizing about revolution are aware.

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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by csours on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:33PM (#45998054)
I think the movie 'Civil War' by Alex Garland was too absurd to be understood by a lot of people - to me it was yelling "IT CAN HAPPEN HERE TOO"
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by potato3732842 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @08:01PM (#46000025)
>People fantasize about revolution, but the reality would mostly be huge amounts of suffering and death.

There is suffering either way. Which has more area under the curve, fighting about it now, or boiling the frog 100yr and fighting later?

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