I believe the point is that even suggesting that a western government is surveilling its dissenting citizens would get you labeled a conspiracy theorist nutjob.

I believe the point is that even suggesting that a western government is surveilling its dissenting citizens would get you labeled a conspiracy theorist nutjob. And with this revelation, we are now supposed to believe that this was the only instance of this happening, it's definitely not happening anywhere else, and you're still just a dangerous conspiracy theorist if you have trouble believing these institutions that lie over and over and over again about things like this until they get caught and aren't held accountable. It's tiring. It's a low effort comment for sure. But it's pretty spot on if you have ever expressed doubt in the mainstream narrative online.