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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Good luck convincing everyone to democratically support the same authoritarianism that would be required to pull that off while everything slowly falls apart. It would be chaos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

democratically support the same authoritarianism

Did you see the US election results yet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Half of America losing their minds and voting for a trump administration is in fact further proof you'd have civil war before you had a "100% planned economy". People are provably irrationally selfish. Even in times of national emergency (cf covid etc)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago

We'd probably go full totalitarian first, plague second.