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Empty the cup and then count them all

Oh yes, I am aware. The person I was replying to had implied that step 2 didn’t exist at all so I was making a more broad statement.

I do realize your username is literally GuyFawkes. Nevertheless, when somebody is doing wrong, the first approach should be to use reason and empathy as a point of argument. If that fails, then work to starve the oppressor of what they seek to exploit until they find that pursuit to be no longer in their interests. If that fails, then use whatever means necessary to ensure oppression ends and human rights that were once willingly suppressed instead become guaranteed.

Solution: sacrifice the richest people until their wealth adds up to $37 trillion and maybe a few more rich people just for extra security

Or scientific notation

So would an oppressive government be able to simply set up their own instance and identify the IPs of lurker dissidents based on what they up/downvote?

Oh, I didn’t mean his word salad specifically

Careful not to condemn word salad on the Fediverse or else you’ll get downvoted and told that it is completely comprehensible regardless of any grammatical nonsense.

No worries, Batman has a kryptonite contingency plan for if/when Superman were to turn evil

Colostomy bag