@geekysteven@beige.party More seriously than you meant it, but it really impresses the heck out of me that everybody lived under a authoritarian dictatorship because random jerks said "I own this area and everybody in it, because my god said it was cool," and all it took was a couple-dozen guys writing "but what if human rights," and now it takes billions of dollars to keep authoritarian regimes in power for longer than a hamster's lifetime...