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  • Edgerunner Alexis@dataterm.digital
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    1 year ago

    Yup, that’s honestly the history of the world — people giving up their autonomy and independence and concern for what’s really going on in the world to authorities for ease, comfort, convenience and just out of habit, then being surprised when those authorities turn around and begin taking advantage of them. It’s the eternal struggle against apathy.