Star Wars fans when they realize the movies were based on the Vietnam war, and the empire was America.

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    It’s still needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders who are friendly to their interests, for example. There’s plenty of non-western countries happy to spread bloodshed and tyranny, and there’s plenty of western countries that oppose it.

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      needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders

      What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?

      I wish we were oversimplifying things.

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        What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?

        Capitalism.

        WTF do western governments got to do with what private companies are doing?