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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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In the US, every major company you can think of that makes its living from the Internet will fall on the side of the regime. Not just media companies, the money movers, purchasing and payment processors, geo-location, hosting, thousands of services, and basically the entire infrastructure underneath everything.

If push comes to shove, first every platform will be used to heavily propagandize, mis-inform, and sow division. (More so than now).

Then it will be used to track, spy, and honey-pot. (More so than now).

Then they'll simply shut it off.

The era of an anonymous kid sitting in a basement and arguing the merits of some sweaty anarchist manifesto with his friends online is over.

The tool we thought was going to make us ungovernable via free communication will be used against us.

The dream of bringing the species together globally, a meeting of a million minds, to help and understand each other and advance a peaceful utopia is not going to ever happen.

Submitting a vote on an onion forum will start with a simple keystroke and end with a Palentir missile strike on your house.

The best we could hope for will be to seize the physical stations to prevent their use by others, basically nullifying its existence.

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millions of people can work together fine, it's when you go beyond that and start expecting most people to get along that things fall apart.