Comment by throw0101a

> Anyone espousing these ideas will not be taken seriously by me going forward.

Just because they're hypocrites does not make them wrong. Remember it was the GOP that passed the PATRIOT Act, and people were warning about that from the very beginning.

Though they've been arguing in bad faith on any number of topics (and have been for decades):

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/03/arguing-with-z...

* https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324005018