When the sentence is the same for non-violent protest and for actual terrorism, don’t be surprised if things get more extreme quickly.
mhague@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nonviolent direct action has earned them the label “terrorists.”
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Just more newspeak, like Trump calling everything he posts online “truths” while being nothing but lie after lie.
floo@retrolemmy.com 4 weeks ago
The Ministry of Truth -> MiniTrue
Truth Social -> 💩💨
zarathustra0@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Quik@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Grrrrr, he very likely didn’t say that.
The closest to it I could find is “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws” by Tacitus (The Annals of Imperial Rome).
Cicero lived at the end of the republic, his problem wasn’t too many laws…
olafurp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Bang on mate. It’s here in the “Misattributed” section en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero
olafurp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Cicero was world class complainer after all.