• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    In modern context, with Musk censoring and banning everyone and everything he doesn’t like, having a backdoor into a country’s financial system and probably also deportation, that statement is ominous as hell.

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      3 days ago

      Seriously. It seems like the subconscious anxieties and fears of the writer’s mind come through in statements like this and a few others. Whatever positives (real and imagined) there are about the situation, there is an underlying loss of personal autonomy that causes a sense of unease. The thing that’s continuing to intrigue me now is: did the writer intend for that to come through, showing the losses a society of that nature would sustain as a commentary on those that promote it, or are they unaware that their words reveal that distress and anxiety? Idk, weird article.