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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says the Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. - Benjamin Franklin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What does he mean by liberty exactly? I feel like we’re well past that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

:Looks at Trump MAGA slow motion facist take over of the government:

Are we really over that liberty thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is liberty referring to freedom? Liberation from what? What is freedom? The jan 6 people were mostly getting social media washed into their behaviour. Admittedly someone has to be open to it before they can be primed but each step is necessary to achieve this kind of mania. My point is how much are we truely freely thinking when we’re constantly having our attention pulled to events that have carefully curated narratives already prepared for our consumption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well you have the freedom to buy into whichever flavor of propaganda you prefer. I don’t think there are too many alternatives flavors of propaganda offered to Chinese or Russian citizens…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Join your local radical (in a cool way 😎) militia if you're actually worried.