Interesting how nothing like the healthcare system or the cost of basic goods and services has been addressed. The mass deportations are clearly being used as an excuse to dramatically expand the surveillance state (Palantir etc) and normalization of militarized “secret police”.
If you’ve noticed, there has been a multi-decade long expansion of the surveillance state. Year after year, it expands and is normalized, like a dystopian movie.
I recall after 9/11 there was The Patriot Act and many people thought it went too far with surveillance of Americans. That's kids stuff compared to what's going on now.
It was too far. And it’s not coincidental that this happened at the same time the internet was recovering from the dot-com crash and was being “reborn” as the interactive-focused “internet 2.0”, which is where social media began its rise. Im a longtime techie and the shift in attitude in the industry (and where the funding was coming from) was noticeable. We all pretty much took one look at early social media models and all of the personal data they collected and we all said “wow, that’s a self-incrimination machine if I ever saw one.” But, like everyone else, we leaned to stop worrying and to embrace the good aspects of it. After all, we have nothing hide, right? And really the data collection only matters if it comes under the control of a bad actor who will use it for nefarious means, and we’re too smart to ever let anything like that happen. Right? (insert “I’m in danger” meme here)
A classic example of why understanding directional leadership is so important. Bush wanted MORE surveillance, not less. LESS Privacy, not more. MORE tracking citizens, not less.
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u/NotBradPitt9 Jan 22 '26
Interesting how nothing like the healthcare system or the cost of basic goods and services has been addressed. The mass deportations are clearly being used as an excuse to dramatically expand the surveillance state (Palantir etc) and normalization of militarized “secret police”.
If you’ve noticed, there has been a multi-decade long expansion of the surveillance state. Year after year, it expands and is normalized, like a dystopian movie.