not sure I'm getting it.
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Replying to @blog_supplement @db_is_db
China, and Europe are both full of surveillance cameras, US increasingly. All information will soon be flatly accessible by authorities. Knowing what we know about bureaucratic systems, how is any supraorganism like a state to resist 'totalitarianism' ?
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desha is only behind due to technological backwardness, not for lack of trying.
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Replying to @i_contemplate_ @db_is_db
Yes: I agree that technological shortcoming, the vastness and inability to penetrate the mini-Pakistans within is the reason for it in the desh not being able to go that way. As for other states converging on such a state too no disagreement. My point was however more about who
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in the apparatus lays their hand on the data. The mlechCha states have a strong deep state with connections with untrammeled power for the police to harass and kill on one hand and evils like Bozos and faceberg on the other. It is the possession in the hands of such that I was
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thinking out aloud about. Imagine a scenario where a future James Damore does not even make it to gogool in the 1st place for they have already got a whiff from from his genome
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Replying to @blog_supplement @db_is_db
Yes that's the danger. However, if Damores can't get to Goog, the marginal talent available to such organizations will itself decrease. Brezhnevism is the future of 'progressive' deep states. Therein lies opportunity to seize the day.
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Replying to @i_contemplate_ @db_is_db
If my observations on demographics & other tendencies have any substance in them I fear that before the opportunity can be seized we might be left with scenario of the underlying conflict which has trump as its symbol in the US
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Replying to @blog_supplement @db_is_db
Even then, what is the long term prognosis for a system that increasingly is unable to dissociate itself from lies such as 'intelligence/IQ does not exist, there are no group differences in talent, moaar LGBTQABCXYZ++ engineers for diversity' ?
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Replying to @i_contemplate_ @db_is_db
If you are asking for prognosis of the system as whole my answer is decline characterized by deepening divide and conflict across the divide. Yes all those liberal memes will play in the decline but the reaction to it will also end up rooting for the police state
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Yes! This is accompanied by widespread 'preference falsification' (Timur Kuran's term). Basically, upper class nervous and willing to be saved by a Lucius Cornelius Sulla - "deliver us from this spiral of madness"
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Replying to @i_contemplate_ @db_is_db
indeed the spiral of madness is seen as a feature by those at the backend
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