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14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal

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560 points whatsupdog | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 11:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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perihelions ◴[08 Sep 25 11:48 UTC] No.45167153[source]▶
Hard-earned freedoms are wasted on societies who don't have memories of what it took to earn them. Freedom is a ratchet: slides easily and frictionlessly one way, and offers immense resistance in the other.

This is all so disheartening.

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cedws ◴[08 Sep 25 12:08 UTC] No.45167299[source]▶
I’m not aware of a single nation where the ratchet is loosening. It appears freedom is being eroded everywhere. The most disheartening thing is that nothing works to stop it. There are countries where millions of people have protested, but in time the protests always fizzle or are stamped out, and things continue on the same trajectory.
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canadiantim[dead post] ◴[08 Sep 25 12:38 UTC] No.45167525[source]▶
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myrmidon ◴[08 Sep 25 12:59 UTC] No.45167706{3}[source]▶
What exactly are you referring to, reduced political correctness demands?

On the other hand, you have the government meddling with the political alignment of educational institutions, which is both new and alarming (e.g. the Harvard thing).

Domestic use of military is another really bad precedent from a "freedom" point of view, so I think the current administration is significantly net-negative so far.

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1. whimsicalism ◴[08 Sep 25 13:18 UTC] No.45167896{4}[source]▶
i think they likely are referring to the 2019-2020 trend of government leaning on social media companies to block/suppress certain content. not saying that is worse than what is happening now, but it definitely happened and i remember not being able to send links to news articles deemed politically problematic or “likely Russian disinformation”

e: cmon, downvoted just for providing the example all of these replies are asking for - really?