That’s actually where democracy came from. When guns came along, it became extremely cheap and easy to turn every random peasant into a soldier. This meant that you essentially always had to have the will of the people on your side.

That’s Ceaser, right?

I’ve actually been thinking that AI poses a substantial enough existential risk that it probably should be called Abominable Intelligence.

Isn’t there a lot of bad stuff happening with Hunter Biden atm as well? A distraction as ephemeral as “look over there, aliens!” Would be very well suited to cover that up.