Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the...
by aww_dang on Friday June 18, 2021 @11:48PM
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Predictions of the War on Terror security state being turned inward have all come to pass. Domestic terrorists are now presented as the biggest security threat.
Expect a similar outcome for the new biosecurity state.
Of course, these views are near heretical. Just like questions about the drug war decades ago. Then there are the horrors of a climate apocalypse which we must not question.
NPR can give themselves a pat on the back while promoting all of the above, without acknowledging their participation in the War on Drugs. It is all a bit rich, beyond hypocritical. Observe that most of the topics above are flame war material here at HN, well...
Expect a similar outcome for the new biosecurity state.
Of course, these views are near heretical. Just like questions about the drug war decades ago. Then there are the horrors of a climate apocalypse which we must not question.
NPR can give themselves a pat on the back while promoting all of the above, without acknowledging their participation in the War on Drugs. It is all a bit rich, beyond hypocritical. Observe that most of the topics above are flame war material here at HN, well...