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You can reread my comments and you will see I am not against you on this. I started my first comment with "If we...". I am including myself in with the people
by slg 6y ago
You can reread my comments and you will see I am not against you on this. I started my first comment with "If we...". I am including myself in with the people who are failing.
I believe we need to get better at explaining this issue. We need people who are "trying to spend [their] time walking you from A to B" because flatly saying "you should be against it simply because in principal it's a bad thing" is not going to motivate any political change.
- Grimm1 6y agoTo be honest the entire thread sat weirdly with me, not sure why. That said I just disagree with you that the masses typically are motivated about anything not just government spying I think action and change will come from a small group of people with vested interest, at least initially. Everyone has that personal issue but it turns out that everyone's "I want this to change" issue is typically pretty different from one another so finding that similar group and banding together there to fix the problem I expect to be better than finding some key to ignite the masses. And FWIW if the argument from the government is "See these people don't care about it so it can't be bad" is in itself a super weak argument. People and the government haven't cared about plenty of things that, at least in my set of morals, turned out to be super bad even if only a small set of people initially protested so.