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A comment on I Saw Democracy Die in Russia. Parent comment
> In that climate, people accepted extreme countermeasures far more readily.
Duuuh. Anyone remembers 9/11? "Patriot" Act? TSA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ? Torture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniq... ? Dronestrikes killing citizens? Everything else that Wikileaks and Snowden exposed?
That didn't concern anyone?
And now that, as silly and annoying and full of stupid ideas as he is, the president actually does NOT want perpetual war, talks about shrinking military, cuts on the federal unelected beurocracy, now, you're going to talk about "saving democracy"?
> In that climate, people accepted extreme countermeasures far more readily.
Duuuh. Anyone remembers 9/11? "Patriot" Act? TSA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ? Torture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniq... ? Dronestrikes killing citizens? Everything else that Wikileaks and Snowden exposed?
That didn't concern anyone?
And now that, as silly and annoying and full of stupid ideas as he is, the president actually does NOT want perpetual war, talks about shrinking military, cuts on the federal unelected beurocracy, now, you're going to talk about "saving democracy"?