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Steve's avatar

Knowingly commiting to lies corrupts your soul.

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It also has the advantage of serving no other purpose. Covid masks make/made a good marker of allegiance, but are justified in some minds as having legit utility. Doing something explicitly retarded makes you admit to yourself and others that you're just a thrall. The old X-Wing series once theorized that this was why the Emperor named all his Star Destroyers "The Domestic Abuser" and whatnot.

The downside is that this takes the elite a step closer to upgrading their street enforcers from random punks to uniformed and uniformed brute squads. The upside is this pants-on-head behavior might be a boon to us. If tens of thousands of essentially normal people get ejected from the hierarchy, what can they do except parallelism?

The regime is gambling, whether it knows it or not, that its technology and processes are advanced enough that they can afford to jettison the worthwhile people. We'll see.

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