[ot][spam] being scared of police

[Karl]

Person a walks up to person b.

B: "Let's lock our doors!  Take down the surveillance state!"
A: [looks around furtively] "Omigod!"

B: "What are you, some kind of narc?  Come on, everyone is locking their
doors!"
A: "Are you a plant?  Am I in danger?  I don't want to get hurt.  Is it
safer to break the law or obey it here?"

B: "Laws telling you not to lock your doors are the man breathing down your
ass.  Get up and stop milking your own sorry death!"
A: "Omigod!  Are there such laws as that?  I never thought about whether I
might get imprisoned for locking my door!"

B: "Totally.  There's worse stuff than that, too.  Why, the national spy
agencies are taking 80%[number made up for impact] of your taxes and mostly
spend their time actively trying to make people helpless."
A: "Omigod!  I don't want to be made helpless fighting these people!"

B: "The only solution is rip your chains off, throw it down, and fight!"
A: "Are you going to hurt me?  What I do to fight?  Can you rescue me if
I'm in trouble with these people?  Can they rescue me if I'm in trouble
with you?"

B: "I've already told you how to be rescued.  Stop being a sheep and bite
the forces of oppression."
A: "I'm ready!  I'm scared!  I'm bite the forces of oppression until you go
away!"

B: "Good."

B: "Me and A are going to bite the forces of oppression.  Who's with us?"

C: "A is my friend, and I oppose the government, but not violently, because
I have a federal agent friend who follows me everywhere ever since I
attended a rally.   What do you have to say to my federal agent friend?"

 B: "Your jerk friend better quit their job and take down the state!
You're an agent yourself, I bet!"

 C: "A is my friend.  Are they okay?"

B: "I won't fall for your state-sponsored deception!"

 D: "So, how are things going?  And what's your name?"

 C: "D is a friend who follows me everywhere."

 A: "Creepy!  Do they ever hurt you?"

 B: "I don't need to give idiots like you my name.  Did you know that
state-sponsored spy agencies take 80% [number fabricated for impact] of
your taxes?"

 C: "Well, no not directly and physically, but I've been pretty stressed
out being followed everywhere."

 D: [turns to A] "And you?  What's your name?"

 A: "My name is A and B is asking me to fight the state and I just don't
want to get hurt!"

 C: "I mean honestly the state is not always that amazing.  Many see voting
as fighting the state."

 B: "Voting is a trick designed to keep you from ever accomplishing
anything!  Burn down the voting booths!"

 D: "And your name is B, is it?"

 B: "My name is C.  That's B." [points to C]

C: "He knows I'm C, he follows me everywhere

D: "Oh, B and I are good friends, I was just putting on a show for you all."

 A: "Where is normality?  Where is normality?"
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