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Fucking with urbanites packed into fragile and overcrowded cities with lots of cameras and witnesses is one thing... Fucking with rural and suburban folks who may own significant patches of land with access to wetlands, digging equipment, booby traps, lethal snares and the means to build them, and other means of effectively concealing evidence of "pest control"... does not sound like a smart or healthy move to me. It is not a matter of how or how much, but the will to go that far. And if just some individuals possess the will to go that far, it will cause absolute chaos in the system. My aunt in Shanghai tells me that at least TWO quarantine enforcers were killed early on, even though state media never reported it or tried to brush it off as "rumors", and that most likely had caused the "no exceptions" lockdown to be turned into a "three tier system" after the third week. Just two. And that was able to cause a ripple higher up. What if it was 200 or more, with more vanishing and never showing up to their posts again, only to be found bloated like whales, blackened, and rotting in hidden places a month later?

People do not get the governments they deserve. People get the governments they TOLERATE and put up with.
 
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Fucking with urbanites packed into fragile and overcrowded cities with lots of cameras and witnesses is one thing... Fucking with rural and suburban folks who may own significant patches of land with access to wetlands, digging equipment, booby traps, lethal snares and the means to build them, and other means of effectively concealing evidence of "pest control"... It is not a matter of how or how much, but the will to go that far. And if just some individuals possess the will to go that far, it will cause absolute chaos in the system. My aunt in Shanghai tells me that at least TWO quarantine enforcers were killed early on, even though state media never reported it or tried to brush it off as "rumors", and that most likely had caused the "no exceptions" lockdown to be turned into a "three tier system" after the third week. Just two. And that was able to cause a ripple higher up. What if it was 200 or more, with more vanishing and never showing up to their posts again, only to be found bloated like whales, blackened, and rotting in hidden places a month later?

People do not get the governments they deserve. People get the governments they TOLERATE and put up with.

i think im going to need an excavator and a few pigs just in case of such visits
 

Why is she not being investigated for this? (I actually know the answer)
 
China: A combination of futuristic technology and a society still embracing a medieval mindset:

Draconian lockdowns, culling of household pets, ruthlessly promoting the use of traditional remedies over more effective modern medicines, "people's war against COVID" ideology, etc., are reminiscent of the very same strategies used by town fathers in northern Italian city states in 1347 to try to eradicate the Black Death. The tactics seen in Shanghai seem to be taken straight out of an account of a medieval city during the Plague years.

And now: "morality councils" in villages. Using puritan Communist Party morality principles to shame and reward individuals: Almost 100% identical to the actions of the Protestant Reformation in 1500s Europe, particularly the Dutch Lower Counties, as well as Tudor England...


Ever imagine what would happen if an interstellar military corporation suddenly arrives at the planet where "Game of Thrones" is set in, and introduce Westeros and all of the other kingdoms to energy weapons, starships, fusion drives, and mass scale planetary crust mining??? Well, there ya' have it...
 
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China: A combination of futuristic technology and a society still embracing a medieval mindset:

Draconian lockdowns, culling of household pets, ruthlessly promoting the use of traditional remedies over more effective modern medicines, "people's war against COVID" ideology, etc., are reminiscent of the very same strategies used by town fathers in northern Italian city states in 1347 to try to eradicate the Black Death. The tactics seen in Shanghai seem to be taken straight out of an account of a medieval city during the Plague years.

And now: "morality councils" in villages. Using puritan Communist Party morality principles to shame and reward individuals: Almost 100% identical to the actions of the Protestant Reformation in 1500s Europe, particularly the Dutch Lower Counties, as well as Tudor England...


Ever imagine what would happen if an interstellar military corporation suddenly arrives at the planet where "Game of Thrones" is set in, and introduce Westeros and all of the other kingdoms to energy weapons, starships, fusion drives, and mass scale planetary crust mining??? Well, there ya' have it...
How far away are they from setting up witch trials?
 
How far away are they from setting up witch trials?


Been done: Cultural Revolution 1966-1976. Even my grand uncle, whose family had been instrumental in settling the north country and establishing the first heavy industrial ventures in the ore-rich land, had been accused as a "capitalist" and Red Guard mofos had surrounded his ranch house and tried to get him to come out for public shaming. The only let up because he threatened to dynamite the entire fucking place sky high if they didn't back the fuck away. We are from the steppes. The wide open land of blue sky and rolling grasslands. We don't handle forced philosophy courses well, at all.
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Why is she not being investigated for this? (I actually know the answer)
I have friends in Massachusetts. They literally don't know anyone who votes for her.
 

Why is she not being investigated for this? (I actually know the answer)

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