• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    insanely dystopian

    In a way…

    But compare that to countries where no one can hold you accountable for being an asshole. You end up with people trying to out asshole each other, in my state it’s not abnormal to hear about road rage leading to shootings in traffic.

    But when you look back at the vast majority of human history, this was the type of shit most enforced:

    Don’t be a lying asshole and get the whole tribe worked up because you wanted attention.

    Now, if this happened because she said a government official was an asshole, or that society could be better…

    That would be insanely dystopian

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      7 months ago

      The big problem is that one usually leads to the other. Saying politically unpopular things in a way those governments perceive as threatening often leads to more than just administrative fines.