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Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy

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  1. N_Lens · · focus · HN ↗
    People least suitable to wield power are most magnetically attracted to it.

    We are forever doomed to be ruled by those worse than us, for the simple reason that reasonable people don't seek power.

    1. noir_lord · · focus · HN ↗
      > To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. (Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

      Growing up on a diet of HHGTTG and Discworld just made me intrinsically distrust power in all it's forms.

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