US will win at this like it always does baby
Kier > Mandelson > Palantir > OSA, Digital IDs, Police realtime AI surveillance
No corruption to see here
If Denmark, the country that keeps pushing chat control over and over again until it eventually passes, is at the top of the list then we are all truly fucked
It’s about perceptions of corruption not actual corruption
We’re not fucked, we just have a big job ahead of us. There are millions of us, and few of them. The time to remove them from power has long since past.
I think it underlines how freedom is always inherently a global project, a genuine embrace of freedom as a value requires a humanist embrace of the totality of people who could be bestowed freedom.
It is not enough to just try to get it right in one place, the powers against genuine freedom are too great and the seductiveness of “well I got mine” is too dangerous to our moral integrity, we must seek solidarity with one another from the start or else we will inveitably be encapsulated deeper and deeper in layers of oppression and control whether it is panoptic and pyschological or directly physical in nature.
Democracy is a pleasant illusion, it always has been. It is impossible to have free and open elections under a system where the citizens are split into a ruling class and a working class, a system where money is speech and corporations have freedom of speech, a system where the law is written by the ruling class and enforced against the working class but not against their own.
We need to take back our society, through force if necessary.
