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I am always saying the same thing but... This is the same tone the CPSU/NKVD/KGB would use to defend their tactics, their manipulation, their ultimate power.
by pfortuny 13y ago
I am always saying the same thing but...
This is the same tone the CPSU/NKVD/KGB would use to defend their tactics, their manipulation, their ultimate power.
The "heroes" are the ordinary citizens. It is their ordinary lives the NSA is commited to defend: especially their ORDINARINESS, more and above their lives.
You do not want to live: you want to be free. This is what motivated the independence war, you know? People preferred dying to living under the Crown.
Nowadays nobody in the whole world is free from the NSA.
This has to end. As soon as possible.
Sorry to say but Goebbels, Beria and so on come to mind. And of course, Mayakovski...
- vidarh 13y agoI once received a pamphlet from a "friendship committee" with North Korea. It contained a series of translated speeches by Kim Il Sung. Unsurprisingly Kim Il Sung in his speeches likewise insisted everything was for the best of the people, and their happiness and security. Likewise, you'll find Mao said a lot of stuff about freedom and democracy and defending the people. The only people who uncritically buy statements like these are people that want to buy them because they are already invested in believing... Such as having a job that depends on them being able to justify what they are doing to themselves.
- jivatmanx 13y agoI'd add, Words like "Homeland" are also familiar. And not from the lexicon of traditional Democratic-Republicanism.
- embolism 13y agoThis has to end. As soon as possible. And be replaced by what?
- ihsw 13y agoFew things can replace suspicionless mass surveillance of everybody on the face of the planet, and personally I'd rather we live in a world where that doesn't get replaced with anything -- it's put to an end in the same spirit that slavery is. Yes I'm aware everybody doesn't use the internet, and yes I'm aware slavery is still quite prevalent, however my point stands -- slavery is an affront to self-determination and so is suspicionless surveillance.
- embolism 13y agoWell said. However the grandparent comment speaks as though this is unique to the US, rather than something that most governments are doing or would like to do. How do we get to a state where an actual value is ever given serious political weight? Ending slavery took a major war.