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The real importance of this is archival. Who knows what would have been burned and shredded to protect the masked brutes.

> over freeloaders and criminals

Statistically this is false. No amount of hand picked undocumented drunk drivers will change this. A large majority of undocumented immigrants follow the law closer, aside from the obvious immigration laws.

So yes, if it quacks like a fascist duck, it's a fascist duck.

Appreciate the response. The characterization is purposefully blunt. IMO we don't have the time or luxury to play around with debates over how people act towards agents of the state, when agents of the state ultimately answer to the constitution.

However will he invent the next advancement in user tracking via advertisements!

The average user here thinks they're doing far more important work than they actually are.

> If you live in North Korea or pre-unified East Germany, you know the difference. You don't protest, you don't express your opinion, even in private because who knows who the government spies are or who will snitch on you for slightly better living conditions in the system.

This level of control is unnecessary when the population is mentally captive and the chilling effect of police violence prevents any actual action.

I get the angle you're coming from, but I feel like it's missing the point.

The problem is we have a beehive full of ICE/HSI agents that are going around in plain clothes, yelling "trust me bro" in place of warrants/badges/names, and demanding full obedience to anyone they approach.

The same people will injure, sometimes gravely, and refuse medical treatment while holding them in terrible conditions. The party line is that anyone who is arrested by these people are "criminals", which is just a direct contradiction to the bill of rights.

At the end of the day, your comments are saying "I don't care about the bill of rights, all that matters is authority regardless of the legitimacy."

fwiw I'm seeing these comments.

> there would be a leakage in a program so broad as this

It took an insider with one of the highest clearances you can get to break the news about these kinds of wiretapping deals.

Apple, Google, and other insiders were very quiet about those back room deals. You can bet they never stopped and only expanded too.

Imagine how powerful the human trafficking group with a couple cops on their payroll would be.

Basically like pulling up a menu of possible victims and tracking their location down to the minute.

Tech is full of rubes that eat up the lies.

Crypto, big data, AI. It's all just another middle man hoping to scrape some joy out of everyone's lives to they can put a price tag on it and sell it to rubes and the government(and rubes in the government).

From what I've heard from people who've done deep dives, most solar installers in the US are essentially financing scams. The component costs have come way down, it's still essentially screwing things into the roof + a few hours from an electrician.

The real money is convincing marks to take the financing for 20+ years.

I think the person you're replying to is trying to draw a parallel to the common "china cheats" narrative that centers copyright and "stealing" designs.

That's what AI companies are doing to cut costs dramatically, but since it's domestic, there's a sudden apathy towards the original claims.

Which(if any of this ever fucking mattered at all) would undermine the years long campaign of china-hate that at it's core, was large Capital holders being upset their outsourcing plan backfired once China was no longer a captive third-world backwater.

So here in the "west" we created our own machine to speed up the Chinese "Shanzai" and pretend like it's suddenly innovation instead of theft.

This whole situation is why one should never, ever trust the rich man's opinion on foreigners, as it's always always always just to line their pockets.

I'm talking about the out-of-touch article'd class of reporters who regularly get dragged over their tone deaf reporting but sure.

A lot of the dogpiling is from people who come out and say some dumb shit and demand respect. When they get ridicule for their ridiculous take, they play the victim.

That being said, there's also the tumblr->twitter->bluesky contingent who have always loved dogpiling and they're mostly there because the site doesn't have musk boosting nazi posters.