richieadler

I'm partial to AIMP

Really? A worldview requiring accepting ideas without verification and contrary to logic isn't devoid of reason? In what planet?

If a worldview is devoid of reason and no argument will dissuade the person, all useful dialog is impossible.

Turning into Giléad in 3... 2... 1...

They aren't.

In less than 10 years some type of implant will be mandatory.

Curious, because that's the most likely scenario.

Anti intellectuals, jingoists, gun fetishists, imperialists and right wingers are objectively worse that everyone else who's not any of these things. This has nothing to do with me specifically.

And you'd rather have mobs kill criminals themselves? Enact the death penalty for petty thieves while they celebrate billionaires like they do today?

They most likely follow the dictator, at the very least to sate their blood thirst.

"The community" usually doesn't. The most likely result is the bystander effect.