Cheaper
Successful revolutions generally end up purging their founders. This doesn't always happen, and the exceptions are worth considering. But before I consider them, let's look at what happens when a revolution purges the founders without chopping their heads off.

We're seeing a lot of purges right now, as former leaders and icons of the cultural left are being fired for missing one of the microsecond-scale Github updates in ideology.

If the purgees can get together and organize a counteracting BULLYFORCE, things could start to change. So far I don't see signs of this formation.

We see some formation of fake counterforces in social media, like Gab and Parler and Thinkspot. These are meaningless. Just a repetition of the well-known fake division between Fox and CNN. These fake counterforces are also UNNECESSARY, because Twitter and Facebook and Google are NOT censoring truth. They are censoring some expressions of truth, but truth is still roaring along in all of those channels.

Amazon is different, but then Amazon is a publisher in the strict sense of the word, and it's behaving the way publishers SHOULD behave. "Freedom of the press" doesn't mean each publisher must print everything that comes in. "Freedom of the press" means that each publisher is free to CHOOSE what it prints. Amazon does that. There are LOTS of ways to publish outside of Amazon. More than ever before in history. So this is a meaningless complaint.

What would be meaningful is a quiet alignment of canceleds and purgeds, BEHIND THE SCENES, gathering economic force to act in concert.

I have no idea if this is happening. If it was happening PROPERLY, we wouldn't hear about it until it suddenly bursts out of the curtain and makes a set of demands, backed up by HUGE BLACKMAIL POWER and HUGE ECONOMIC FORCE. Meet our demands or we tell everything and crash everything. To prove we mean it, here's the first tranche of information.

Consummation devoutly to be wished, but not gonna happen. The purgees will just keep begging and pleading and apologizing until they die. Cheaper than the guillotine.

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Now back to the first sentence. The exceptions in recent decades are Castro and Khomeini. Both of them were originally funded and trained by CIA, then switched sides and served their own people. They purged the funders but not the founders. Both of them kept their founding generation in place, and Raul Castro is still leading Cuba after Fidel died of old age. Can we learn from these examples?
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