4/ "This corporation is stealing from me. HR told me when I came on that health care was covered, but it turns out it's only covered for ME not for my dependents, and I was led to believe otherwise...and I'd already quit my other job. So they're stealing $150/mo from me >>>
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15/ team A (don't enforce) is in power, nor will they occur when team B (death penalty) is in power, but when power is shifting between the two one day team B has 45% of the votes, the next day they have 51% ...and the war machine springs to life
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16/ now, the
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17/ If (when ?) the middle class rule-of-law autists are in control, everyone will know that the law applies AS WRITTEN, and it doesn't matter if you are drinking buddies with one guy on the Board of Selectmen ...however, the TRANSITION period, where the rule-of-man townies>>>
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18/ are institutionally weak but haven't faced a external / secular (long term trend of migration and gentrification) / autistic shock is EXACTLY when risk of drone-strike-the-red-shirt is at the highest Regime legitimacy is uncertain, a child says the emperor has no clothes...
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19/ ...and a public poll / warrant article / ballot question crystallizes hidden sentiment and displays the results in the open, revealing the Schelling point that has existed but been unexposed all this time. Exciting times. Sucks to be a poor SOB in a red shirt, tho >>>
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20/ ...because you were following the rules AS YOU UNDERSTOOD THEM TO EXIST (rule of man), and your internal narrative was just as legitimate as anyone else's. exeunt
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