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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You can try and suppress a revolution, but it will only make it better. And more brutal.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago) (1 children)

Except for all of those other times when the revolts were successfully suppressed....

Lol... I mean seriously dude?

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 1 points 5 minutes ago

But Star Wars!

(Movies about revolution, designed to program us to be terrible, inefficient, failing revolutionaries. In case we ever get ideas. It's a long game.)