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What's the difference? They "don't care" about it as long as they don't suffer any direct ill effects from their indifference.

Once things get to the point where every facet of our lives is actively under surveillance, and authoritarians in power start abusing their power in ways that affect those who "don't care", they'll start caring really quickly but by then it's going to be too late.

Maybe we need a good fascism scare to remind everyone why personal freedoms should be fought for instead of being taken for granted.




> Maybe we need a good fascism scare to remind everyone why personal freedoms should be fought for instead of being taken for granted.

Ironically since fascist (in the broader sense) parties and the likes don't seem to support Chat control (yet, I guess) the other parties have a harder time passing it to not lose votes to them.

It is strange how such an anti-democratic law is pushed so hard but there is still tip toeing around actually passing it.


Being a child from Portuguese revolution, and witness of how the Berlin wall went down, it is really bad that newer generations don't have any sense of what it meant to live during those days, and vote into such parties with protest votes nonsense.


> Maybe we need a good fascism scare

(And, sadly, it might serve to combat "semantic satiation" and reinvigorate now oft-bandied-about terms that are losing meaning)


>What's the difference?

They Don't Know vs. They Don't Care.

The axiom has always been that People Don't Know, Wake Up Sheeple(tm), but after so much time it's hard to believe that lack of awareness is the problem anymore.




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