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There is no such thing as a vegetable (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Roko's basilisk is a really cool metaphor for fascism. If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded; if you fight it, you are punished but only if you are unsuccessful.

[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded

well don't count on that. totalitarian regimes have a tendency to be paranoid and to enact rather unpleasant purges at every level of the organisation.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

In fairness, I wouldn't count on roko's basilisk either.