Yeah. It's been sad to see how far we've fallen back, in the 10 years since Snowden. I'd argue we've gone even further than regressing, with an outspoken suppor

Yeah. It's been sad to see how far we've fallen back, in the 10 years since Snowden. I'd argue we've gone even further than regressing, with an outspoken support for civil liberties and healthy skepticism of authorities being seen as not merely "kooky", but increasingly "harmful to society" I was hoping to maybe be able to skirt around it, but I think it's unavoidable to discuss this without explicitly saying: the concerning part is that it's increasingly the left doing this. When I was younger I used to be able to rely on that side of the spectrum to be at the forefront of calling out creeping authority like that, which should be unsurprising, given their core philosophy. Yet in the past 5 or so years they seem determined to throw that away and declare that a healthy distrust of the government is in fact a right-wing-exclusive thing, for some reason. Strange self-sabotage, and especially strange when it manifests as people of that affiliation implicitly (or explicitly) praising alphabet agencies