RE:RE:A study in tyrany and despotism Pandora wrote: Symbiotic wrote: See Daw's ideas and then imagine him with the power to do these things. The impotent dictator. If there were a mass with torch's and pitch forks it would be a democratic or market forces expression that warrant's attention. If it's one squeaky wheel begging for grease it's a wanna be dictator. Use the ignore he limits his consumption, invoke censorship, banishment or drive someone away and he is deciding everyone's consumption for them regardless of your position on the matter. Dictators also like narrow and approved topics and speech according to what they find acceptable. Of course he sees a free speech, sound money, free thinking libertarian as the first that must go. Sorry Daw, no powers for you.
When I was a kid (and that's 7 decades ago) we also had the squeaky wheels and they were mostly ignored. Trouble is they kept getting louder and louder, not necessarily any smarter, and now they are running the world -- much to our detriment. Sometimes it seems it's not a bad thing being this old.:-))
Going back to when I was a kid, we were very fortunate not so much in what we had but what we did not have. Leading the list in that regard was this thing called social media (and cell phones). How forunate we were. In close relation to that is something we did have -- we had a mainstream media that reported the news as it was and not just the biased political opinions as they mostly do today.
In a different vent we also did not have "hoodies", other than winter parkas and we never ever wore masks - only the bad guys did that - in that regard maybe that has not changed now we are in the post covid stage. Amazing that the squeaky wheel activists and the "bad" guys thrive on hiding their identity.
Life was great -- not sure how many people are feeling that these days. People seem to find it so much easier to say what is wrong as opposed to what is right.
Saturday night rant -- my apologies to those that can't stand off topic nuisance!