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Re:Voat Is Shutting Down by thaumasiotes on Monday December 21, 2020 @10:59PM (#25502710)
> The continuous political vigilance widely acknowledged to be necessary to prevent liberal democracy from devolving into tyranny is incompatible with the political disengagement you seem to prefer

This is backwards. The tyranny is caused by the vigilance.

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Re:Voat Is Shutting Down by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:52AM (#25507471)
> The tyranny is caused by the vigilance.

Not of those interested in liberty, but, sure of the vigilance of would by tyrants when met with the apathy of those who prefer liberty.

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” —John Philpot Curran

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