i dont like that…
akiяa ( @aki@pawb.social ) English5•1 year ago“We’re far away from the totalitarianism of 1984,” George Orwell’s novel about a society under total surveillance, Dupond-Moretti said. “People’s lives will be saved” by the law, he added.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
The establishment’s power will be saved, I think he means.
In the minds of tyrants, only the rich qualify as “people”. Everyone else is person-shaped livestock.
akiяa ( @aki@pawb.social ) English2•1 year agoi think someone is afraid of change and lives by the rule of
we MUST defend the status-quo. at all cost!
because in their minds, nothing could be better, and every change is inconvience to them
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
And, what, they think they won’t be overly inconvenienced by being disappeared in the night by the Gestapo?
Senil888 ( @Senil888@pawb.social ) English4•1 year agoMmhm. Suuure they will. I see no way in which this power could be abused at all. Clearly this is a harmless ability to snoop in on people without their consent.