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sascha benjamin cohen @saschaben.bsky.social

really, really struggling with “benevolent American panopticon” as three consecutive words in a sentence unburdened by irony

sep 3, 2025, 1:18 pm • 176 18

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Bryan Quinn @bryanquinn1981.bsky.social

Tired: An armed society is a polite society Wired: A intensely constantly surveilled society is a free, crime-free, peaceful, and totally not endlessly paranoid society.

sep 3, 2025, 2:44 pm • 38 1 • view
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sascha benjamin cohen @saschaben.bsky.social

Inspired: If *everyone* is in prison, then there can be no crime...

sep 3, 2025, 2:59 pm • 32 0 • view
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Bryan Quinn @bryanquinn1981.bsky.social

Don’t know if this deserves Vince McMahon escalating orgasm for each step or the Roll Safe meme with “Can’t be a prison if everybody lives there.”

sep 3, 2025, 3:07 pm • 6 0 • view
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lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.

sep 3, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ali Faruk @alifarukrva.bsky.social

sep 3, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view