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War On Drugs is even worse, longer, still ongoing and still eroding civil liberties all the time. And it most brutally affects poor people, with all obvious con
by smsm42 5y ago
War On Drugs is even worse, longer, still ongoing and still eroding civil liberties all the time. And it most brutally affects poor people, with all obvious consequences to that. Americans have largely accepted it - which paved way to "war on terror" also. "War on drugs" paved way to "war on terror", which paved way to "war on virus", which is now paving way to... I'm scared to think what. I'm sure we won't like it, but the same people would tell us it's absolutely necessary to temporarily sacrifice our freedoms... after all, we are in this together! We'll somehow never see those freedoms back.
- ezoe 5y agoOn War On Drugs, US has handy dogs which bark randomly or handy drug test kits which detect illegal drugs from thin air and tap water so the government can gain arbitrary probable cause to arrest anyone. So what do we expect from War on Virus? Bake test kits and concentration camp?