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Like I'm pretty sure the conclusion I had was "oh haha I see your point mr. Vonnegut, too much equality can indeed be a bad thing!"

And I definitely don't remember my teacher suggesting anything about it being viewable as satire of red scare paranoia either

        • VernetheJules [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Like I could easily see a benny g comic branching off of this or just unwittingly flowering on it's own. The use of government mandated handicaps (e.g. restraints) can definitely be portrayed with a garrisonian horniness. All you need is a caricature of pelosi or AOC/twitter as a Domme and it's basically a slam dunk

          full disclosure I am definitely projecting the fact I was mildly turned on when I read some of the...predicaments the characters were in