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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
This may be the strongest case for authoritarianism: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-liberal-democracy-might-lose Basically: the war for people's hearts and minds has no stable equilibrium except local hegemony of one dominant elite, much like (and for the same reasons as) what Hobbes pointed out for regular war.
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MingMing13
@mingming13
I don't like the article right from the get up because Noah is wrong. He was raised In a liberal democracy that defeated authoritarianism yet 35% of his income is taken from a barrel of a gun to pay for socialist causes. Communism is dead? Poppycock. Imperialism is gone until US needs oil. CCP exists...
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Jackson π©π
@jacks0n
Unsure if a lot these lines are NPC integration API or heβs NPC close to realising. Suspect latter
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MingMing13
@mingming13
What I do like is that this image is pretty accurate at displaying how democracy works. Three policemen hold a super majority and are exerting democracy upon their new friend. As if authoritarian regimes need a king
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