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A Boring Dystopia

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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/11490010

Update, yes there are snipers:

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 7 months ago (3 children)

"Geez, they're not snipers! They're just using the sniper scope as a telescope! They're not for use as actual snipers! We just gotta use them to look at the evil protestors!""

[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“These are not weapons trained at your precious little foreheads, they’re Democracy Spreaders™’. You go to class & learn all about democracy & when you exit the building, we use these to spread all that democracy stored up in your brains all over the wall behind you.“

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Managed democracy is a joke too close to reality.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

The fact that a rifle is attached to the telescope is just a funny coincidence