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Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by tastyface on Friday December 19, 2025 @04:05PM (#46330925)
Yes. But many people aligned with the regime think it’s going to be smooth sailing into their dream autocratic ethnostste. Nope.
Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by dpark on Friday December 19, 2025 @04:16PM (#46331030)
It’s weird that someone can look at Russia where wealthy white folks frequently fall out of windows and think “yeah, that’ll probably work great for me”.

Too much main character syndrome, the assumption that in any alternate system they would go up in privilege and status.

Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by quickthrowman on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:46PM (#46332306)
> Too much main character syndrome, the assumption that in any alternate system they would go up in privilege and status.

The same problem plagues almost every libertarian, they all imagine themselves as John Galt in a potential libertopia.

In actuality, they would end up as a regular person serving the John Galts of the world.

Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by lovich on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:11PM (#46332486)
The mothballed guy is just crazy, trolling, or lying.

I was going to respond to another comments of his in this thread when I realized he was the poster who laid out a false timeline of events by omitting the one comment that made him wrong in another post of mine.

You can also see it with him arguing about how democracy is bad because you’ve been tricked into losing your rights, but also his preferred governmental organization includes being taken advantage of by anyone stronger than you.

His stance is logically inconsistent on even a barest look and his hinting at sovereign citizen arguments and hero’s is telling me the answer is that he’s crazy

Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by dpark on Friday December 19, 2025 @09:00PM (#46333072)
Naive and ignorant with a dash of crazy. The sovereign citizen type thinking seems predicated on the rejection of a central authority while still quietly assuming that somehow such an authority exists to protect your rights to be free from an authority.

“If only there was no government I could live however I want and everyone would have to respect my authority to live however I want.”