• tryptaminev@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      But you see, it is only bad if it is done by authoritarian regimes, but we are states of law and democracy, so there is nothing bad about it. And we are states of law because trust me bro

      -European conservatives and “social democrats”

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        The UK conservatives aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. They have now just gone full on dictatorship energy.

        Fortunately they are a bunch of incompetents who fight amongst themselves like a sack of cats. Otherwise they might actually represent threat.

    • IDe@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Why? If anything the EU tends towards pro-privacy/anti-authoritarianism and has mostly avoided this kind of security theater seen in other countries.