On: Surveillance tools used by the Minneapolis Police ...

[andarleen]

It will just become the new normal sadly and people will be more docile by then. The vast majority already is.

[scollet → andarleen]

You are being the docile person you speak of.

[andarleen → scollet]

Of course I am and so are you. But I live in Europe and I dont really worry about getting killed by the police nor do I have to watch out for drones or the army getting deployed when I protest against the discrimination of entire groups of people. We have closet racists but they rarely murder people while dressed as police officers.

[t-writescode → andarleen]

I was going to comment the exact same thing.

What's worse than them complaining about what we have done in the past is them questioning why we didn't do it sooner.

[bobthepanda → t-writescode]

You can't change the past but you can sure as hell try and change the present.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the second best time to do it is now.

[t-writescode → bobthepanda]

No, sorry, what I was trying to say is the future generations are going to wonder why we didn't add all these protections in long before we did. The world was a wild west!

( of course, they'll never understand that things weren't actually dangerous in general and that they've lost tons and tons and tons of freedoms )