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Under a dictatorship, people don't have the right to choose. People chose a specific party to represent them in 2014 and in 2018 that party lost several state elections. This is far from how a dictatorship works. Your assertion is factually incorrect.

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Building something usually refers to that thing not already being completed.

This is groundwork for the future when tech will control the groupthink of people more and more. And it also enables the shutdown of key dissenting voices in the short-term and did you not read about the arrests of certain activists recently? Previously they had to gather meatspace intelligence but now they can monitor anything that flagged people do digitally and that can be used at a convenient time to shut them down. Tomorrow you could easily become that 'flagged' person too.

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