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GaldraChevaliere wrote

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It isn't, the point I'm getting across is that by enshrining rules we already consider a matter of courtesy/decency, we open ourselves to some de jure bullshit. With formalized systems of law/policy as opposed to the consensus decisions we've been making, we get situations like what Ziq described where people try to shut down criticism through policy instead of actually sorting out their beef, and overwhelmingly the bureaucratic types will be the ones taking advantage of it as a way of punishing opposition.Guess what large cohort of our userbase are heavy into bureaucracy.

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ziq wrote (edited )

Completely agree. Bureaucracy is used to destroy radical movements by creating new power hierarchies that prop up the bureaucrats; who then purge all dissenters that threaten their grip on power. Like when r/socialism banned catgirls. Or when Lenin branded the people who fought the Russian revolution 'counter-revolutionaries' and had them all shot so he could establish his vanguard dictatorship unopposed.

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