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Alex Fox's avatar

Outstanding research, Daisy. Starting the connect-the-dots with the Reign of Terror is brilliant, and sets the stage (so to speak) for everything else. Having spent some time around the fringes of the security consulting and emergency management industries, I can tell you that just because items (e.g., coffins) are stockpiled doesn't mean that there's a plan to use them. And, of course, there are more prosaic motivations, like graft. If some high-ranking bureaucrat's brother-in-law has a stackable coffin company, it would be a trivial matter to write a contract for a few million of them that could be stacked in a field somewhere until they disintegrate.

Speaking of companies, I'd be interested to know what firm - if any - is manufacturing "smart guillotines." If only we still had investigative journalists instead of payroll propagandists.

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Edward Bernaysauce's avatar

I say "bring back a decent razor blade, without a toxic moisturizing strip..."

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