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Your data, someone elses money; and in this case, the money for those who can convince you the most that you are in imminent danger and thats why they need so m
by sbhn 8y ago
Your data, someone elses money; and in this case, the money for those who can convince you the most that you are in imminent danger and thats why they need so much more money and media attention and fear mongering government support
- kmlx 8y agofear mongering "government is out to get us" vs fear mongering "the terrorists are out to get us". none are true, but fear sells nonetheless.
- retrogradeorbit 8y agoStatistically speaking (tally up the dead for example) the biggest threat people face in their lives is not from any terrorist or criminal, but from their own government.
- PavlovsCat 8y agoKinda terroristic and criminal governments, often enough. And when you consider the lives saved by having hospitals or food safety regulations or whatever, criminals and terrorists are doing nothing positive at all, so these "statistics" seem kinda off. The threat is in not dealing with politics before it deals with you, and a good way to do that is seeing "the government" of a democratic nation as something totally separate from a citizen in that nation... instead of getting engaged because it's so messed up, to disengage further because it's so messed up.
- retrogradeorbit 8y agoEven a stopped clock is right twice a day. That's it. Never stop believing!
- isostatic 8y agoHeart disease rang and wants its statistics back
- sbhn 8y agoThe uk gov now appears to resemble a media organisation whos main purpose is to broadcast the message of fear. The amount of money that passes in and out of the uk gov and to all the industry security contractors that manage that amplified and antagonised anxiety can probably now be directly related to how much fear it can generate amongst its own citizens that they are under immediate danger of being attacked
- foldr 8y agoReally? I don't think that UK media actually scaremongers all that much about the threat of terrorist attacks. London has been the victim of terrorist attacks on and off for at least the past few decades. People in London are in imminent danger of being attacked (although of course the odds of any given person being killed are tiny).