Rick Wilson - The Dead and the Dying

Let's help global autocracy die.

They always think they’ve cracked the code.

From the gilded, Saddam’s Brothel stylings of today’s White House to the sterile, long-tabled madness of the Kremlin, to 50,000 sq ft baronial lodges in the forests outside Budapest, the would-be strongmen of the world share a singular, delusional fantasy: that they have finally figured out how to kill history.

They believe that with enough surveillance tech by their little friends in Silicon Valley, enough flood-the-zone propaganda, enough offshore bank accounts, and enough willingness to use violence against their own people, they can build a perpetual motion machine of human misery.

They think they’ve moved past the messy, “obsolete” era of consent and into a permanent state of command.

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