You are under the misapprehension that the US government is held back from tyranny by shitty technology. This is false - you could build a totalitarian dictator

You are under the misapprehension that the US government is held back from tyranny by shitty technology. This is false - you could build a totalitarian dictatorship with near-absolute control with 1940s technology. Other states did. >Military tech is tech I want the US military to have the best guns, best tanks, best nukes, best drones, best planes, best satellites, best boats. And spoilers: they do. Yet somehow that has not encroached on our lives. Adding “best surveillance of our foreign borders” does not for a dictatorship make. >They are not chiming in on ‘immigration policies’ I’m not sure how else you can read this statement in the concluding paragraph: “Well, one reason may be that treating problems at the border as humanitarian crises.” Agree or disagree, this is pure domestic politics.