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sitchensis posted:God this is depressing. Can we even call this a totalitarian state? It seems to me that all of this is the state in service of capital. Late-stage capitalism is essentially totalitarianism in a nutshell. Capitalism is very opportunistic and non-preferential when it comes to extracting wealth and the fruits of labor. If democracy achieves this, that works; if totalitarianism does it better, then so be it.
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Adar posted:Sure, but it won't give you one total "trustworthy citizen" number and tie it into your credit score and shopping habits or going to look at how much of a Democrat you are compared to your friends. It will definitely do a large part of that and check how jihadi you are compared to them (which is fine IMO) but overall, it's not the right kind of profile to be used for what China is trying to do. It also helps that there are two parties so neither of them can safely Orwell the other half out of top secret clearances and bureaucratic appointments. "First they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Muslim."
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