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    1 day ago

    The absence of the hate programming would be great, but it’s not just the government that communicates and I didn’t know that mass censorship of hate-fuelled points of view was part of the plan.

    Maybe I’d be on board with that kind of thing, but I worry slightly that just as when you lock up “criminal illegal immigrants” en masse you invariably end up locking up people who are none of these three things, if you lock up people who spread “illegal criminal counter-revolutionary talk” you end up locking up vast numbers of people who don’t support the party with quite the correct degree of enthusiasm or who are just having a bad day or year.

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      23 hours ago

      but it’s not just the government that communicates

      Yes, and?

      Reactionary propaganda is a tool of class warfare - and it would be a pretty inefficient one if it was only the state performing it.

      I didn’t know that mass censorship of hate-fuelled points of view was part of the plan.

      Do you think we should also censor chickens to stop them from producing square eggs, perhaps?

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        22 hours ago

        Do you think we should also censor chickens to stop them from producing square eggs, perhaps?

        What?!

        I don’t think that when you eliminate inequality you necessarily eliminate hate.

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              12 hours ago

              It was clearly a rhetorical question,

              Really?

              I want to know whether you think it’s a good idea to wage structural violence on chickens to prevent them from doing something they have no damn reason to do in the first place.

              Doesn’t seem very rhetorical to me.