the real misdirection is focusing on individuals and their blame. The real question is why does UK political system produces these people rule and how do they keep ruling.
Both parties were captured by the aristocracy/super rich, call them what you will, and they support a total surveillance of a population they obviously fear and want tools to persecute as they see fit. Starmer is a perfect example of this, he’s done more damage arguably than the tories did in over a decade. Their betrayal of the country will throw the elections to the far right too, that is the only protest vote against the status quo, and they will affix themselves in power and implement even worse privacy.
A popular reform party would fix the problems but the aristocracy is too greedy and arrogant for that, thinking they can control a far right party or otherwise shut them out electorally indefinitely and continue to sell out the public to the rich, even as discontent is increasing and the plutocratic rot is visible on the surface and spread throughout the whole.
These people are clueless
“Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.”
or something like that…
they are evil, not necessarily clueless.
What is the fundamental difference. Evil men and arrogant idiots might as well be the same thing.
focusing on the ‘they are idiots’ fallacy completely misdirects blame and disencourages deeper critical thought. they have a plan and we need one too.
the real misdirection is focusing on individuals and their blame. The real question is why does UK political system produces these people rule and how do they keep ruling.
Both parties were captured by the aristocracy/super rich, call them what you will, and they support a total surveillance of a population they obviously fear and want tools to persecute as they see fit. Starmer is a perfect example of this, he’s done more damage arguably than the tories did in over a decade. Their betrayal of the country will throw the elections to the far right too, that is the only protest vote against the status quo, and they will affix themselves in power and implement even worse privacy.
A popular reform party would fix the problems but the aristocracy is too greedy and arrogant for that, thinking they can control a far right party or otherwise shut them out electorally indefinitely and continue to sell out the public to the rich, even as discontent is increasing and the plutocratic rot is visible on the surface and spread throughout the whole.
sure, focusing on how dumb they are isn’t very condusive to discussing the intricacies of capitalism.
seriously though, they do have a plan. we need to figure out ours.
Ironically that’s kinda the argument being made in the document above
They don’t care how it affects normal people’s lives or what we sacrifice to pay for their incompetent leadership.
It doesn’t affect just normal people, but when you make encryption weaker, the foreign state (i.e. bad actor) surveillance also benefits.
It denies normal people the ability to retain their privacy from corporate and government surveillance.
Which is exactly what any government these days wants.