• @[email protected]
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    7510 months ago

    He also further spread anti-government sentiment which has made society far worse as people question everything about government and how it can help people.

    • @[email protected]
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      -1110 months ago

      Are you aware that the worst atrocities committed by any group of humans have been committed by governments?

      It’s good to question government. Governments’ relationship to their subjects is one of domination. That can go bad very quickly because it’s nothing like a relationship between equals.

    • @[email protected]
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      -1110 months ago

      Why is questioning the government a bad thing? Shouldnt we have questioned the government more when we were looking for WMDs?

      • splicerslicer
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        2910 months ago

        Difference between holding government accountable and outright saying government is always the problem. The latter only creates apathy among voters.

        • @[email protected]
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          -49 months ago

          You have two different things there, holding the government accountable, is a thing that happens AFTER they have harmed you, why dont we have mistrust for them while they are making a claim?

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months ago

            Small recent example. General blanket distrust in government leads to unwillingness to trust governmental health experts, leading to making the covid pandemic worse than was necessary.

            As was intended by those like Reagan.

            • @[email protected]
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              -39 months ago

              Or conversely, the general trust in the government led people to go along with measures like lockdowns that harmed the economy, caused severe inflation, and didnt let the kids go to school.

              You are literally repeating bullshit government talking points four years later, you need a little less trust in “experts”.

        • @[email protected]
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          -1110 months ago

          Not really, because the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote. There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.

          • @Aceticon
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            710 months ago

            the way to ensure government doesn’t do bad things is to vote

            Not in the US, it isn’t.

          • @nomous
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            59 months ago

            There’s no reason to believe that anti-government sentiment makes people politically apathetic.

            Do you think anti-government sentiment makes people less apathetic? I don’t mean fringes on Facebook, I mean regular people who work and pay their bills and have an hour to get whatever news they can before they sleep and do it all over again.