• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    Their point (well, part of it anyway) is that whatever the government says, there’s no guarantee that the powers provided to the government by this bill will only be applied to organized crime, or that it’ll stay that way. “America doing what’s best for America” got them ICE.

      • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        Hope and trust will only take you as far as your politicians are willing to play along. Trump happened to the United States, but demagogues with great aspirations and a willingness to bend rules to (and beyond) the breaking point are by no means unique to them.

        Which is to say: make it legally binding instead of relying on the goodwill of politicians.

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          3 days ago

          Trump happened to the United States

          I would argue that Americans knew for decades that he was a piece of shit. Why they continued to vote for him is something for psychology professors to explain.

          I hope that Canada never becomes that ignorant, and my worry for the future isn’t really with our politicians, but more with our shifts as individuals.

          Where I live, we’ve got a resurgence of violence towards visible minorities, and racist graffiti going up in public places (libraries, etc.). My concern is that a growing number of bad people will vote for bad politicians, not that good people will vote for bad politicians.