2026-05-19 08:12 UTC
Over and over again, politicians are warned about the ways that their pet policies will a) produce enormous collateral damage, and; b) be easily evaded by the people they're seeking to control, giving rise to a cascade of ever-more extreme measures. And yet, they swallow a spider to catch a fly and then act baffled and hurt when we tell them it's their own damn fault that they now have to swallow a bird to catch the spider:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/wanting-it-badly/#is-not-enough
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-05-19 08:12
The foreseeable and foreseen consequences of bad technopolicy are all around us, but in the eternal *now* of a politics utterly devoid of object permanence, no one is allowed to remember what happened the last time we did something stupid, *especially* not when we're on the verge of doing that same stupid thing again, *only worse*: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/#calea 3/