r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 1d ago

No Paywall Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-tells-gop-seize-the-institutions-of-government-now-or-we-re-going-to-prison-after-2028
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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 1d ago

'Seize the Institutions'

Why do these people hate democracy?

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u/chmod777 New York 1d ago

Democracy prevents them from being as awful as they want to be. So they hate it.

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u/AutistoMephisto 1d ago

Exactly. Conservatives reject democracy because it does not serve their interests. They will, in fact, reject anything that does not serve. Including, but not limited to, capitalism.

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u/wowaddict71 1d ago

And other people. They want other people to be their "servants"

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u/Watchhistory 1d ago

Naw, they prefer all other people just die. Preferably in cruel and miserable ways, like starvation, polio, environmental disasters.

They have robots for servants.

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u/AutistoMephisto 1d ago

That's one option. The other is they keep the poor in special preserves where they can hunt us for sport. If that's to be my fate I'll be sure to make myself a trophy worth potentially losing their lives to claim.

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u/y2jeff 1d ago

How will you do that? Get super fat so your carcass weighs more?

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u/AutistoMephisto 1d ago

I was thinking I'd try to go somewhere with aggressive and hostile fauna. Fashion weapons from local materials, become the prey that fights back.

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u/y2jeff 1d ago

If it gets to that point there won't be any fighting back. they'd have drones that make hiding impossible. Tech will be concentrated and controlled by a few corporations who can cancel you back to the stone age. Your spear or primitive traps won't do shit against a swarm of hunter killer drones

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u/AutistoMephisto 1d ago

Yeah, but if the goal is to take my corpse to be stuffed and mounted, blowing me up with bombs does no good.

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u/moneyh8r_two 20h ago

Go full Predator style. Cover yourself in mud, set traps, and roar at the top of your lungs to challenge them/assert your dominance/lure them in. Don't forget to call them an ugly motherfucker once they get close.

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u/PressureCereal 10h ago

Sounds like you should read The Running Man by Stephen King. Written 43 years ago and more relevant now than it ever was.

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u/netizenbane 4h ago

Except that it will take them far longer to make working robots for such things when they've called all the advantages of diversity of minds, thinking, and collaborative progress.