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> You just have a very [U.S.] centric view. [...] I trust the [Latvian/EU] government to not wilfully [sic] abuse the data [sic] far, far more than I trust any
by maxwell 4y ago
> You just have a very [U.S.] centric view. [...] I trust the [Latvian/EU] government to not wilfully [sic] abuse the data [sic] far, far more than I trust any for-profit entity.
If unclear why no one in the U.S. trusts federal, state, or local governments:
* The U.S. federal government now mostly acting in service of for-profit entities, due to legalized bribery of elected officials (Citizens United) and inadequate representation (the Judiciary Act of 1869 for the Supreme Court and the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 for the House).
* History defeating the most powerful empire in world history, emerging as the first nation to ever overthrow a colonial oppressor.
* U.S. law enforcement officers extrajudicially killing more Americans than mass shooters in 2019 and police departments across the country taking in billions USD every year in unconstitutionally seized assets.
* More Black Americans in the "justice" system in the 2020s than were enslaved in the 1860s.
- tzs 4y ago> More Black Americans in the "justice" system in the 2020s than were enslaved in the 1860s. What do you mean by in the system? I would have guessed it means incarcerated, but there were around 3.9 million slaves in 1860 which is much higher than the number of people incarcerated in the US which is around 2.3 million (Federal, state, and local) of which around 1 million are black.
- maxwell 4y agoI was slightly misciting Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow (2010), from a presentation she gave in 2011: "More Black men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began" https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/black-men-prison-system https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/bla...