• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Good luck convincing everyone to democratically support the same authoritarianism that would be required to pull that off while everything slowly falls apart. It would be chaos.

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      1 month ago

      democratically support the same authoritarianism

      Did you see the US election results yet?

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        Half of America losing their minds and voting for a trump administration is in fact further proof you’d have civil war before you had a “100% planned economy”. People are provably irrationally selfish. Even in times of national emergency (cf covid etc)