>>21511213all the shitty authoritarian things and the suppression of freedom of expression and the right of having your political views represented in the government in one way or another don't just pop up overnight and it's a gradual slope that starts off small and insignificant and grows larger as more and more previously unthinkable things and ideas become real and routine, give them an inch and they'll chop off a foot so they're only testing the waters of how much technically legal bullshit they can get away with
