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Wow, I would have never expected a law like this to pass anywhere in the Anglo-Saxon world post-WW2. I mean, I would have expected abuses of state power, which
by mihaic 3y ago
Wow, I would have never expected a law like this to pass anywhere in the Anglo-Saxon world post-WW2.
I mean, I would have expected abuses of state power, which always exist and are limited, but never putting this in law, even in war time.
- sph 3y agoThe Post-WW2 era you speak of ended in the 1970s or so. We always believe the hunger for piece of prosperity after 1945 would last forever. Nothing lasts forever. People forget, and then go on to repeat the same mistakes. Time is a circle.
- grobgambit 3y agoYou wouldn't have this insane law though if the internet never existed. The free world that evolved after WW2 is simply not compatible with the internet.
- sph 3y agoThe problem is not the Internet though. It is the Big Government that wants to control any aspect of its citizens' lives.
- throwaway48476 3y agoThe post ww2 period was when the CIA was doing the most illegal things. Imagining the period as some time of limited abuse is false.
- mihaic 3y agoI know there was abuse, it's just that the gov didn't make efforts to twist the legal framework to ease their abuse.
- throwaway48476 2y agoNo, they simply ignored it.
- yareal 3y agoFascist policy grows in stagnant Liberal society. Right now, in many of the wealthiest nations we have two Liberal parties. (For instance the democrats and republicans in the US, which are both Liberalist parties.) Without a more diverse political landscape, the government accelerates hard towards corporate power and centralization of wealth, at the expense of the worker and individual. When individuals cannot seem to succeed, and start to get frustrated, they seek populist candidates. The sort of "I just wish someone would tear this all down and rule in my favor" candidates.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoTrump and trump era republicans do not believe in liberal democratic ideals or the englihtenment. They are not liberals. Trump would absolutely take absolute power if he thought he could get away with it. No, they’re not neoliberal either. Steve Bannon calls for a “deconstruction of the nation state” which is just pomo enough for me to believe that he is pretty much comic book evil.