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The people get who the people deserve. The bulk of the population wants a police state, they just want the police state which panders to their views of what is right, hence the heavy right vs left views. Democracy requires diversity of idea to work.

Some people think they want a police state. But they won't like it once implemented.

Nah, it just will not be the police state they wanted.

No they will like it. A great book on the topic is “Hitlers Beneficiaries”. Most people like the idea of punishing their out group.

If I didn't believe this ten years ago, I certainly believe it after seeing people's behavior during the pandemic. Personally that's when I considered the social contract to be null and void. I'm no longer interested.

It is not even close to an extreme view to think the government should be able to develop (conventional) weapons in secrecy and it should be illegal to post detailed photographs and descriptions of the related facilities.

Probably the overwhelming majority of citizens of each country thinks their government should be able to do this.

People haven’t woken up yet to the combination of social media plus ever present cameras. Traditional ideas of security through obscurity plus mass media manipulation to keep secrets out just doesn’t work like it used to. In the meantime a lot of decent people are going to get caught in the crosshairs of populist rights violations.

I hate to break it to you chief, but they would have done it every year since Area 51 became a thing. Don't take photos of secret US government facilities. You aren't any smarter than they are and you definitely don't have more resources.

i very much doubt the hyperbole here. i’m _very_ acab, and hugely against domestic overreach, but to call it soviet union style is pretty ridiculous, and belittles the actual horrors of the stalinist regime

It won’t take many steps when the government monitors all communications and has cameras nearly everywhere.

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