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You really think oppression is more faceless now than before the existence of cameras? What was the odds that a medieval peasant knew what the King looked like? Or that a slave in Egypt knew the face of the Pharaoh?

The Uyghurs are absolutely living in a dystopian nightmare. China uses technology to track their citizens. You can't blame it on AI, although AI has improved their technology. Their tracking predates AI. Also our current "AI" is just self-improving algorithms, not true AI.

People all over the world have agency.

Happy without the horrors of the western world's education, sanitation, medicine, science, technology, liberalism, or democracy?

Sounds great! I'm sure you'll really enjoy sustenance farming. If you're lucky, you can get married at a young age and experience the joys of as many children as you (or your wife's) body will bear.

I'd say it's less about being desensitized, and more about the fact that the world has never been a utopia. This "dystopian" stuff has always been happening.

No. I'm familiar with history. It is normal.

I don't think that's an organized movement.

In the Americas? Shouldn't people in the Americas be returning the land to the indigenous Americans and returning to the homes of our European ancestors?

By the way, the last place my grandmother lived in Scotland was turned into a Tesco. Should I bomb it since I have an indigenous right to my homeland?

The Palestinian struggle would get more sympathy if Hamas wasn't involved. Hamas is delighted with the high civilian death toll because of the backlash against Israel from people who place far more value on human lives than they do.

No, the Empire only recently gained the ability to blow up planets. No one joined under threat of their planet being blown up.

And yes, conscripts are fair game. Unless they A) rebel against their commanders and/or B) immediately surrender. As long as they keep running the death machine, they are culpable.

They are serving in the Empire's Army, so yes. Despite the fact that they were conscripted. If they didn't want to be killed, they should have organized a massive uprising against their leaders and surrendered the Death Star to the rebel scum.

Hamas isn't "the resistance." They've been in power in Gaza for almost twenty years. They murdered their political opposition and became a single party Islamic dictatorship.

Furthermore, they committed a massacre to provoke Israel into a war, in hopes that Israel's response would lead to the brutal deaths of a lot of Palestinian civilians and lead the world to naively become sympathetic to their cause (destroying the state of Israel, instituting an Islamic dictatorship with Sharia law in Palestine, and eliminating all Jews, Christians, atheists, Hindu, and Shia Muslims from the region).

Hamas is cartoonishly evil. Much like Netanyahu.

What state-sponsored media? RT? Al Jazeera? NPR? BBC? Be specific!

Nobody sided with the military in Ender's Game once they understood what was really going on. That's the whole point of the story.

People side with Batman because he wears a cool costume, has cool gadgets, and delivers funny one-liners while he beats up cartoonishly evil bad guys. Not because he's a millionaire.

That's not what the definition of liberalism is at all.

Liberalism is a political and social philosophy that believes in individual rights, equality, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise. Liberals do support revolutions when the system that is being overthrown is illiberal, such as a monarchy or dictatorship.

Liberals simply don't support the Marxist idea of a "permanent revolution." Revolution always gets a lot of people killed, so they should be few and far between. Furthermore, revolutions - especially idealogical revolutions - run a very high risk of being coopted by brutal opportunists who cynically exploit the idealistic revolutionaries to gain or retain permanent dictatorial power for themselves.

Right now, there's no guarantee that a revolution would result in something better. History shows there's a very good chance that revolution will kill a lot of people and lead to something much worse.

Furthermore, our current system has a successful track record for slow yet steady improvement. But it's always two steps forward, one step back - at best. Sometimes there is backsliding more than one step. But history shows that the current system can be used to move forward again... So there's no reason to throw it all away, risking a much worse replacement.

Which resistance are we talking about? "The Resistance" movement in response to Trump's election in 2016? Or "the resistance" which tried to overthrow the election on January 6, 2021? Sorry for being myopically American, but being American, I assume that's what we're always talking about.

It's gross? Let me restate that: It's gross.

They sell them frozen in a bag now. So you don't have to eat something that came out of an Arby's kitchen.