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>>robthe+(OP)
This is how you govern from a position of unpopularity.

The government knows they’re on the wrong side of many issues, to the point they know they can’t win an open debate.

So media control, regulation by enforcement, and institutional control becomes the focus of effort.

>>spaceb+ab
> So media control, regulation by enforcement, and institutional control becomes the focus of effort.

You forgot gun control. That's the first thing they took away. Thereafter, freedom after freedom has been made optional by the government [1].

When government becomes overreaching, and you don't have the means to protect yourself and your rights, that's where it goes.

[1] I said "government", but probably "regime" would be a more suitable term here.

>>mirolj+0f
I still don't know what's so important about guns and how it's a metric for freedom.

>>whynot+Ph
As Mao said, political power grows from the barrel of the gun. In the past decade freedom of speech and internet freedom has being dramatically curtailed in pretty much every western country where the citizen are unarmed.