Thread:4th of Augustball/@comment-38190122-20200311185625/@comment-34650195-20200501221425

MrBismark wrote: Metal78 wrote: this scares me authoritarianism should scare you

"Those who would trade their freedom for security deserve neither and shall lose both."

-Benjamin Franklin It seems so as long as you are not in immidiate need of that security. When people are attacked and exploited by legal or illegal means it all seems to them in a very different light. They need a strong arm to protect them and because some upper class politicians or businessmen doesn't feel entirely in control and their profits are a bit lessened doesn't mean that that arm should go away. Russians traded their security for freedom in the 90s and it wasn't very beautiful.