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Good luck, man. Nobody cared in 2012, and even less people care now. The west is lost. 1984 is already here.
by rdevilla 7mo ago
Good luck, man. Nobody cared in 2012, and even less people care now. The west is lost. 1984 is already here.
- echelon 7mo agoDon't give up! If you think the heat has started, you're mistaken. We're not even in the fire yet. It can and will get waaaay worse. We've been able to push back against these efforts time and time again. Don't stop. Call your legislators. Talk with your friends and get them to do the same. Vote against politicians that support it. It does work.
- rdevilla 7mo agoWhatever you think the scale of surveillance is, I assure you it is 100x worse. North America is rooted. There is no recovery plan.
- timschmidt 7mo agoMy understanding is that Abraham Lincoln literally had all the nation's telegraph lines routed through DC during the civil war, and AT&T has been an honorary branch of the US government ever since.
- rdevilla 7mo agoThat tradition was carried into the modern era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
- timschmidt 7mo agoI'm aware. And the GP you're responding to's username is echelon. I think they're aware as well.
- int_19h 7mo agoThe problem is that, as a constituency, we are and have always been a tiny minority. Call and vote all you want, it won't change a thing because most people just don't care - or at least don't care enough. And there aren't any good (as far as they are concerned) arguments to convince them otherwise.