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citrion ago

Here's a good list of guidelines

Problem (the government is...) Symptom (the powers-that-be are...)
covering things up, spying on you, illegally influencing people, out to get people quick to prescribe psychiatric solutions to mundane problems
abusing power, wronging people, attacking freedoms overeager to convince people they're guilty of wrongdoing, quick to litigate in situations which don't usually call for it
jealous of people's success, trying to steal credit from people, pushing a petty agenda giving people crap for doing the right thing, using smear brigades, shouting down "tinfoil hats," annoying people with inexplicably persistent idiots
putting under-qualified cronies and trophy chicks in positions of responsibility, under the sway of trolls and propagandists and manipulative advisers academia which is inexplicably eager to reject benign, uncontroversial arguments without even listening to them, even if it makes them come off as stupid