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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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