I once had a discussion with a GNU Taler dev, who argued with a straight face that the government should have a (limited) backdoor into financial systems despite voters sometimes electing bad people because, and I’m dead serious here, the German voters would never elect someone with as authoritarian tendencies as Trump.

I guess he missed his history lessons…in literally every year of school there lol nostr:note1vhhxnpt5r75rvc9mtjnky8qmtknfu9ddemq8qynkk22wrzn7n2mqkqjzmn