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Unfortunately when it comes to government abuse vs the People, we're like 0-10 at this point. We know the playbook: roll these ridiculous bills out, spark outra
by user3939382 4y ago
Unfortunately when it comes to government abuse vs the People, we're like 0-10 at this point. We know the playbook: roll these ridiculous bills out, spark outrage, shift the Overton Window, either kill the bill or amend it, and in 12-36 months roll it out again until the corrupt politicians and the security state behind this stuff win by attrition.
We lost fucking habeus corpus with the NDAA that gets renewed every year! How are we doing with the Patriot Act? Is James Clapper in prison yet? Assange is. It never ends.
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- KerrAvon 4y agoWell, it's good that Assange is in prison. His contributions have made all of this so much worse.
- chatmasta 4y agoHow so? I don't follow the logic here. Do you also think that about Snowden? Pre-2013, technologists would laugh at anyone suggesting the NSA was spying on US citizens. There were tinfoil hat jokes and everything. Snowden showed it was not only happening, but was commonplace and operating on a massive scale. Assange, like Snowden, revealed all sorts of government and military corruption which was directly enabled by things like the Patriot Act and the NDAA. So how did "his actions" make their effects "so much worse?"