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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/29/14, 11:02 AM, Hashem Nasarat
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On 10/29/2014 12:24 PM, RKN the_PORTABLE wrote:
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Let me sum up gg in a way that I expect cpunks to understand (but then
again, I expected cpunks to have more brain and do better research
rather than just go white knighting):
"Anti-prism people are not pro privacy. They are pro terrorism and
paeodofilia! Snowden is just a racist! He could not cope with changing
times and the fact that new president is black so he sold out his
country and ran away to homophobic and racist RUSSIA!"
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This analogy is not very useful as USA is also homophobic and racist.
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<pre wrap="">Not really the same at all. Russia's government is still actively oppressing people in these ways while the US is:
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A) Far less homophobic and racist than it used to be. In some
areas, hardly at all.<br>
B) Has gone from the government homophobia hunting people to fire
from government jobs in the 1950's to complete legality and usually
legal protection now.<br>
C) The Millennials as a group are not homophobic or racist to any
measurable degree. Remaining pockets are becoming more isolated and
their youth are changing too, as far as anyone can tell.<br>
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The whole culture is rapidly changing in many ways. Music,
Internet, Hollywood, legal cases, politicians (because many have
been voted out), etc. have all been changing people's opinions. The
rate of evolution, or at least the rate of maturation of active
cycles has been apparently increasing each year.<br>
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Pervasive cell phone video, major cases of corruption and
overstepping bounds and tragedy have caused major pull back of
longstanding troublesome trends.<br>
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This is how all of this ties into cypherpunks: Observing how
opinions, public sentiment, then enforcement, regulations, and
market options evolve in each of these cycles should be instructive
when trying to induce important change. How can you position things
to improve better outcomes when inflection points happen?<br>
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sdw<br>
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