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[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

They just aren't even trying anymore.

There's no reason for them to try, if ever there was.

Sure more of us than ever have previously inaccessible knowledge with the Interwebs, but it's certainly not enough to tip the sheeple scale, nor to counter the centralized power monopolies.

[–]raven9 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think they used to believe the people would rise up...

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think they used to believe the people would rise up...

Even then, they have wealth, persistence, and endless canon fodder, along with endless practice at dealing with resistance, and their mafia monopoly on violence, so every revolution just rotates around back to where you were, perhaps with different players, but always arriving at another corrupt matrix of rigged systems of exploitation in place.