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[–]Bigs 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Because a crisis means they can over-ride normal laws and morals, and the majority of our dumb-fuck species will go along with it.

We're fucking morons, on the whole.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

[–]Bigs 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Of course, the whole 'PATRIOT Act' etc was the classic example. Give up your freedoms for safety! There's a man on dialysis with some boxcutters, living in a cave somewhere, which looks like a big house in Pakistan, but whatever, safety! For the chilreeen!