I mean like this: “Realized that most of these programs are not meant to help anyone, merely to control people and make them dependent. I was forced to reconsider everything I’d once believed. I developed a profound distrust of government regardless of the philosophy of the people in power. I remained a liberal on civil-rights issues, became a conservative on defense, and a semi-libertarian on all other matters.” - Dean Koontz. Am I wrong?

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    1 year ago

    That may be the result, often, but what I think is the concern – for me – is pro choice, freedom of expression, lack of bigotry, lack of exploitation, privacy violation, lack of personal tracking, lack of net ads, no extraction of profit as primary goal.

    So maybe, yeah.