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Nobody stops the government from sending goons to your door right now for a snarky comment. Some govts in fact do it today. It is also cheaper than ai rocket an
by Muromec 8mo ago
Nobody stops the government from sending goons to your door right now for a snarky comment. Some govts in fact do it today. It is also cheaper than ai rocket and more precise too
- QuantumFunnel 8mo agoWho needs rockets when you have autonomous mini drones
- Muromec 8mo agoBut you don't have autonomous mini drones, only the leader of the free world does.
- nesky 8mo agoCost kind of stops the government from sending goons right now, sure some governments do it but, it's costly at scale.
- justsid 8mo agoMissiles are a lot more expensive and much less reusable than goons though. If the nation state can’t afford the goons, it can’t afford to missile you either
- collingreen 8mo agoDrones aren't though. Plenty of ways to use the data above for evil deeds.
- c22 8mo agoWith the digital panopticon neither goons nor missles are really necessary. Opressive forces can just disable your spending and travel credits. If they need you dead or in custody they can just grab you the next time you pop up on camera near one of their agents.
- riffraff 8mo ago> Opressive forces can just disable your spending and travel credits "Disabled spending" already happened to the people in the ICC that acted contrary to Trump's diktats[0], without the need for a digital panopticon, both the banks and the government know who you are. [0] https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/ https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-u...
- brewcejener 8mo agoReaper drones will be the more cost effective way to eradicate amalek.
- motbus3 8mo agoThere are cheap drones with guns now thought
- jpadkins 8mo agoThe UK gov has shown to be incredibly efficient at arresting and imprisoning citizens for social media comments.
- dontwannahearit 8mo agoPlease share evidence.
- QuantumFunnel 8mo agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-are-being-thrown-in-uk-prisons-over-what-theyve-said-online-can-free-speech-be-saved/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-a...
- dboreham 8mo agoThis is widely promoted but not true.
- vikingerik 8mo agoThe cost effectiveness is the intimidation and chilling effects on a wider population, when that can be achieved with a small number of actual goons.
- Arubis 8mo agoGoons don't scale well. Wide-scale intimidation does.
- mystraline 8mo agoIts called police. And they scale extraordinarily well. And turns out power-tripping men offered raw power over other humans on threat of violence is something they like. And ICE? Remember J6 and Three Percenter's and all those right wing militias? They ended up in ICE. Same reasons.
- brewcejener 8mo agoA very bold claim I have heard repeatedly, backed up with zero evidence. Care to share any proof you have found?
- nurettin 8mo agoIt is called swatting.
- pstuart 8mo agohttps://archive.is/nwxkh https://archive.is/nwxkh That was from a quick search, no doubt there's more. Now it gets down to trust issues on reporting.
- pessimizer 8mo agoIt's very important to pretend that ICE goons are significantly different from regular cops, because Democrats are going to wave a magic wand and declare ICE to be regular cops again when they are in control of them again. Meanwhile, regular cops have been doing the same awful things that they've always been doing, literally at the command of Democratic mayors who are pompously declaring that they won't enforce immigration law in speeches. They'll send cops to throw your shit into the street when your rent suddenly doubles, and won't report an illegal immigrant felon (whose history we know nothing about) to ICE. Organized white supremacists are nobodies with no power, they're all over the military, the cops, prison guards, and ICE. Meanwhile, Parchman Farm in Mississippi doesn't even report the people who are dying there, and has plastic all over the floors because the roofs are open to the elements. That's just legal American black people who this country actually owes something to, though. That was trendy like five years ago, it's so over now.
- marcosdumay 8mo agoThe goons are. Almost no government can create goons that are submissive enough to comply with any kind of crazy order.
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- marcosdumay 8mo agoI dunno? Are you referring to the USA? Did your military take over the Democrat-run states when Trump sent them there last year?
- XajniN 8mo agoYour answer doesn’t make any sense to me.
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- ImPostingOnHN 8mo agoThe government already does that. The only challenge is scale.
- motbus3 8mo agoStop justifying more horrible stuff with "there is already some horrible stuff"
- rapind 8mo agoWasn’t ICE pretty much doing exactly that with no oversight or accountability?
- mrguyorama 7mo agoThe other day an ICE lawyer told our state's court that when a bunch of ICE agents rolled up to a private citizen's house and harassed and threatened them, they "were not acting according to policy" So, yeah. But none of that stops Meta wanting to help Trump be more efficient at harassing discontent. It can always get worse. Always.
- pessimizer 8mo agoYou're being silly, the missile thing was hyperbole. Your computer will direct the thugs to your door. > Nobody stops the government from sending goons to your door right now for a snarky comment. This is just dumb. They literally don't know who wrote it, and have to assign somebody to track you down. The fact that they're putting infrastructure on your computer and on the network to make this one click away for them matters.
- rdn 8mo agoThe OP's point can be understood as an automization and mechanization of such targeting. Which will be necessary if the scope of thoughtcrime prosecution is to expand
- dormento 8mo ago> It is also cheaper than ai rocket and more precise too Never stopped people overengineering :P