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This makes me sick inside. Like it is futilely depressing to my core. I've been trying to fight the government wiretapping and invading citizen privacy since I
by drivebyacct2 15y ago
This makes me sick inside. Like it is futilely depressing to my core. I've been trying to fight the government wiretapping and invading citizen privacy since I was a sophomore in highschool.
By time people give a fuck, it's going to be too late.
- sneak 15y agoPeople will never give a fuck. If they were going to, it would have happened already. Stop waiting.
- tokenadult 15y agoI'm older than you are, evidently. Over the years, as I've read literature from various eras and traveled to various places, I've learned that people can feel under more constant surveillance, and BE under more constant surveillance, in a small, isolated town or village than as citizens of a modern high-technology state. And yet in 1989 people in several parts of central Europe rose up for freedom--courageously doing so even after the Tian'anmen Square Massacre was a worldwide news story--and defeated the secret police organizations of totalitarian dictatorships. You can still fight for freedom. That takes courage, but you'll find the courage if freedom means that much to you. I'm wondering when the tens of thousands of local uprisings that China reports each year in its official press will coalesce into a national movement for freedom.
- Create 15y agononsense. 1989 people in several parts of central Europe rose up for freedom--courageously there was no need to rise up in central Europe: the regime collapsed by itself, primarily for financial reasons. The countries were surveyed by the West years before, and given IMF loans. The rest in 89 was literally a show, albeit not in theatres but on screens. the regimes just morphed, like now in China.