cryoshon

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by cryoshon 10y ago
another disgusting, warrantless, un-needed and un-asked for imposition of the police against the citizens.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
another open question: can we as a nation completely repudiate our government? they're long past acting for our benefit, and actively conspire to keep us stupid and afraid.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
excellent catch, the conflation of laws and policies with tactical information is a standard trick in the disinformation/propaganda/useful idiot tact of minimizing when our government goes hog wild without our permission.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
everyone gets upset when i say that the US lives in fascism but the facts do not disagree with my statement very frequently
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by cryoshon 10y ago
> it became clear to me that, at some point, the attempts to tarnish Wikileaks's name was to prime the listening audience in a way such that when information so irreparably damaging would get released, the voters would have to choos
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by cryoshon 10y ago
source? if true, this would be a troubling precedent in the use of third party analysis in conducting military operations
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by cryoshon 10y ago
great, now the mouthpiece of the state department is finally coming out against torture, long after they cheerled for the entry into the war which provided a stage for such torture. bravo. the fact of the matter is that we're long over
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by cryoshon 10y ago
another un-fun comment: our government has a habit of murdering inconvenient journalists, which far eclipses any academic qualms regarding incorrect details amidst a morass of intentional deception on the topic of government sponsored drug
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WikiLeaks releases what appear to be Clinton's paid Wall Street speeches(theguardian.com)
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Profit-seeking collaboration with drug dealers. Targeting of rogue cops trying to expose the dysfunction. What else aren't we hearing about? How much more evidence do we need that a lot of these malfunctioning police departments need t
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by cryoshon 10y ago
hypothetically: you express radical political ideas to your friend with the expectation of your statements remaining in confidence-- but google was listening. now, your feed recommendations steer you further down the path google thinks you
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by cryoshon 10y ago
this is the reality in our black communities. night raids, arbitrary detention, brutality, denigration. the police fight a war against the poor. if they behave like an occupying army, they should not be so offended when they are fought like
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>Also, wearing black uniforms is ridiculous. why? if they are oppressors, they may as well look the part.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
i fear that we have arrived at the endpoint described by a CIA director named william casey: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." it's a possibility n
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by cryoshon 10y ago
stories about russian oppression are interesting to the us public because of decades of media coverage... nobody is interested elsewhere because the media doesnt even cover when a neutral or us-aligned country is oppressive.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it worries me that this spot-on comment has been downvoted... government control of the media has been very well characterized by chomsky et al., among others.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
I'd dispute that my posting was an ideological rant, given the depth and subtlety of my arguments as well as the ultimate admission that the demographic in question is useful and essential... it's also unarguable that SJWs are not
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by cryoshon 10y ago
there's no conspiracy. just like-minded people who behave in consensus-seeking ways.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Because love of knowledge and learning are weaknesses in a capitalist society. Where there is love, there is a willingness to sacrifice for the love. Where there is a willingness to sacrifice, there is a cost that can be cut. The scientists
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>There is tons of money in science! Yep, it goes to the cost of doing research, paying the CEO and VPs, marketing, etc. Industry positions pay vastly better than academia, but still quite poorly relative to the amount of work and experti
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Why don't we have police/state targeted surveillance software? A million data points about police activity on social networks (on their personal accounts) would be a trove of enlightenment for the public. It's clear that they
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Alternatively, fighting traditional crime does not actually require that much of their budget, so they try to open up new avenues of finding criminality in order to ensure they continue to get the same budget.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>Social media gives the government and spy agencies undreamed of power. They don't have to create a file on each citizen, the citizen will create and update it for them! Which is exactly why accessing this kind of public and innocuo
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by cryoshon 10y ago
The concern is that the police are considering peaceful activism as hostile intent, and escalating scrutiny accordingly. Furthermore, more monitoring of activists provides more chances for incitement/provocation by the police as needed
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Your list is very similar to my own. I think a philosophical approach will set the proper state of mind for thinking about the specifics of the more modern theories.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Unemployment is high, wages are low, debt is high, savings are low, and cost of living is high and rising rapidly in the only geographical places which don't suffer from high unemployment and low wages. Consumption is low due to the ab
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Let's see some prosecutions of the police for harassment, false imprisonment, destruction of property, assault, battery, conspiracy to commit a felony, creating a disturbance, conduct unbecoming of a public servant, and obstruction of
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by cryoshon 10y ago
the more outright hatred, disgust, and vitriol that we can shame/shun the police with in public, the closer we'll be to police reform-- the police feel intimidated and scared by a public that treats them poorly, and they will adju
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by cryoshon 10y ago
enough to offset the debt economy? dubious
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by cryoshon 10y ago
great, now maybe we can develop countermeasures to illegal & unethical surveillance methods like these. there are a few imsi-catcher detection apps out right now, maybe we will see more.

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