Let’s take a look at how Apple’s auto captioning is working on Elmo
yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern
i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here