I never bought into quantum immortality. Isn’t it obvious to everyone that this is just circular reasoning?

the people

Who exactly is “the people”? What constitutes “the people”? Aren’t the bosses part of “the people”?

the government

Are they not the government?

Arrogance has little to do with making these strategic considerations. If anything arrogance is a strategy that comes from dealing with things like backlash etc. The cause is not arrogant people, or people lacking self awareness because of arrogance. It’s simple economics in a way.

Yes. I think it’s dangerous to say “they are just crazy”

Democracy hasn’t been authentic for decades. It’s literally theater now.

I regard most voting as giving your okay to have decisions made for you and not by you. The owning classes wouldn’t OK their democracy shpiel if it didn’t play a vital role in sustaining the system at this point. It’s as if they’re trying to say “oh, just go to the voting booth. We are one people and we are totally not divided through opposing interests. My interests are totally your interests, now go and vote for the candidate that managed to receive enough funds to compete, which is btw everyone on the ballot”

I don’t think voting is terrible, on Wikipedia it seems to work quite well (and is not overused) because there is no real social stratification on that site like in the real world and everyone is united in the goal of creating a decent, stable source of knowledge. But a lot of democracy, even many direct forms of it, have shown themselves to be tools to legitimate state terrorism and to condition popular support from the people most negatively affected by present political decisions.

Here is a semi decent video about the futility of the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_AFv5Z7qI

Best believe this backlash is already factored into Flock’s equations

I understand it. That piss is good! They come in sugar-free varieties and the caffeine content is less than that of a large mug of coffee. I will never see a breakfast consisting of orange juice and coffee among other things as being better for you.

You sower of doubt!