(From one of my all-time favorite writers, Umberto Eco, in 1995.) theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

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“The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies…However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” This is not weird.

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like dont get me wrong, eventually she was going to kill or maim someone who mattered, but she didnt. what she did instead is MUCH funnier lmao..... she defrauded the bourgeoisie out of BILLIONS

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the thing that's like "ok that's maybe on her" is that guy who committed suicide when he couldn't figure out how to make it work

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Not just papering over a crisis of trust, papering over decades of neoliberal rot. The idea that AI can become civic tech without a massive, generational investment in civic infrastructure is just more scam politics.

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