Communist - Terrorist.
Bad Hollywood guy's russian - Bad Hollywood guy's middle-eastern.
Cold war - War on terrorism.
Governmental FUD - Governmental FUD.
Freedom is slavery.
It all feels familiar somehow, but memory is as short as a generation.
Has anyone invested any type of research time into the cost to avert terrorism by integrity-breaching means, the expected number of saved lives for those investments, and the expected number of saved lives that could be had by, say, investing the money in safer roads or cheaper medication or better schools or wtf?
First thing to be done to change a bad thing is to make it very clear and very obvious that there are better alternatives, with hard facts - to visualize what's going on.
(And could I have a copy of that surveillance tape for the family album, please?)
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Communist - Terrorist.
Bad Hollywood guy's russian - Bad Hollywood guy's middle-eastern.
Cold war - War on terrorism.
Governmental FUD - Governmental FUD.
Freedom is slavery.
It all feels familiar somehow, but memory is as short as a generation.
Has anyone invested any type of research time into the cost to avert terrorism by integrity-breaching means, the expected number of saved lives for those investments, and the expected number of saved lives that could be had by, say, investing the money in safer roads or cheaper medication or better schools or wtf?
First thing to be done to change a bad thing is to make it very clear and very obvious that there are better alternatives, with hard facts - to visualize what's going on.
(And could I have a copy of that surveillance tape for the family album, please?)