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Most things around my life in the last 15 years fit familiar, cynical pattern that politicians spit in our face and get away with it. That leads to desperation

Most things around my life in the last 15 years fit familiar, cynical pattern that politicians spit in our face and get away with it. That leads to desperation and learned helplessness. To give EFF a credit, they actually fight. Unfortunately, quixotically

natch 11y ago
I wouldn't say it's quixotic, because they do win many fights: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eff%20wins https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eff%20wins
- guard-of-terra 11y ago
  Quixote did actually win some fights too. FSVO winning.
logfromblammo 11y ago
~Desperation and learned helplessness is good! It's part of the plan!~ ~I was thinking the other day, and I think I figured out the government's plan for ending terrorism. (Yes, I was wearing my foil hat. Thank you for asking.)~ ~What is the goal of terrorism? To make people afraid.~ ~How do you end terrorism? Option 1 is to stop the things that make people afraid from happening. But there is an option 2. You can just stop people from being afraid.~ ~So who is not afraid of terrorism? Who doesn't even feel a twinge of anxiety about being attacked by terrorists? That's right--terrorists.~ ~To stop terrorism, all we have to do is turn everybody into terrorists. Now we don't know how to actually turn an ordinary person into a terrorist, even though the federal TLAs are doing research experiments, but we do know how to treat everyone like they already are terrorists. Do it long enough, and people will eventually get the hint.~ ~So it all makes sense now. They want everyone to become a terrorist, so that nobody will be afraid of terrorists, which will destroy terrorism utterly, and so nobody can ever be a terrorist again. Brilliant!~ ~I'm sure the EFF means well, but if we stop treating everyone like terrorists, the terrorists win.~
Ensorceled 11y ago
I like how the EFF is described as quixotic and cynical in the same story (albeit by different commenters)

natch 11y ago

I wouldn't say it's quixotic, because they do win many fights: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eff%20wins https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eff%20wins

guard-of-terra 11y ago
Quixote did actually win some fights too. FSVO winning.

logfromblammo 11y ago

~Desperation and learned helplessness is good! It's part of the plan!~ ~I was thinking the other day, and I think I figured out the government's plan for ending terrorism. (Yes, I was wearing my foil hat. Thank you for asking.)~ ~What is the goal of terrorism? To make people afraid.~ ~How do you end terrorism? Option 1 is to stop the things that make people afraid from happening. But there is an option 2. You can just stop people from being afraid.~ ~So who is not afraid of terrorism? Who doesn't even feel a twinge of anxiety about being attacked by terrorists? That's right--terrorists.~ ~To stop terrorism, all we have to do is turn everybody into terrorists. Now we don't know how to actually turn an ordinary person into a terrorist, even though the federal TLAs are doing research experiments, but we do know how to treat everyone like they already are terrorists. Do it long enough, and people will eventually get the hint.~ ~So it all makes sense now. They want everyone to become a terrorist, so that nobody will be afraid of terrorists, which will destroy terrorism utterly, and so nobody can ever be a terrorist again. Brilliant!~ ~I'm sure the EFF means well, but if we stop treating everyone like terrorists, the terrorists win.~

Ensorceled 11y ago

I like how the EFF is described as quixotic and cynical in the same story (albeit by different commenters)