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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I'd like to think that the deportations could be stopped in their tracks when Facebook videos of screaming families being ripped apart started showing up on everyone's feed.
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Brings to mind the Arab Spring phenomenon.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
We need the economy to tank long and hard for that to happen. So long as people can buy food easily they'll never get angry enough to revolt.
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But this just happened 10 years ago and nothing changed. Hell, we even went so far as to elect a president who's cut from the same cloth as Richard Fuld.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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