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What's sad is what he got wrong. The 'm' in "Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties?" should have been a 'b'. "Bush" in "Congress hurried to pas
by spodek 13y ago
What's sad is what he got wrong.
The 'm' in "Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties?" should have been a 'b'.
"Bush" in "Congress hurried to pass a resolution giving Bush unlimited power" should have been "the Executive Branch."
Visionary as he was, history surpassed what he anticipated.
- skore 13y agoIndeed, that makes it even worse. Time and time again I see people scoffing at Stallman (and others like him) as "radicals" who do nothing but impede our discourse with their outlandish fantasies, trying to center it around their paranoia instead of finding quick, pragmatic and ultimately self destructive "solutions". I have a feeling Stallman would have liked to say more, but chose to make a more modest statement. Turns out, he could have cranked it up to 11 and it would still be modest by what we know today.