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Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable

13 plastic-enjoyer 5 9/4/2025, 7:02:15 AM vox.com ↗

Comments (5)

esbranson · 15h ago

As in the case of Singapore, it can be downright utopian. Also, this should be marked as being from 2017.

42lux · 1d ago

Are these articles popping up in the last few weeks a precursor or journalists exploring the space searching for some sort of solitude?

mitchbob · 23h ago

https://archive.ph/GfnpI

ministeroftruth · 1d ago

Authoritarianism is about Hollywood and Steam

more_corn · 19h ago

That’s good to know. Just in case.

I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they burn gbs a day of bandwidth (twitter.com)