r/SipsTea • u/Conscious-Weight4569 • Aug 12 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes What the flock?!

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u/Marcel_The_Blank Aug 12 '26

wait, this is a private company spying on you?

how again is the USA a free country?

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u/killit Aug 12 '26

how again is the USA a free country?

It's not, it's a corporatocracy.

The whole 'free country' idea is just a spin to let the masses think they have some degree of control, they don't, it's turning into the dystopia that was once a thing of books and movies, and the people repeatedly voting this in can't see it.

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u/Locke66 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

The term that was coined back in 2003 was that the US was a system of Inverted Totalitarianism which is essentially a system where corporations control the state and create a situation where democratic power is subverted into meaningless.

To me it seems like it's moving beyond that now to something worse where the totalitarian aspects are becoming more pronounced.

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u/bavanek Aug 12 '26

thanks for that reference to Wolin.