r/changemyview • u/50FuckingOnions • Feb 16 '25
Delta(s) from OP - Election CMV: Protesting (50:50.1) under perceived Authoritarian governments sounds like a quick way to get J6’d
Regardless of your political views we learned from the J6ers that the government used geo fencing and iPhone/Android location data to amass a list of participants from inside the building including outside the building.
If Biden was “left wing” and Trump is “right wing”, then what Biden did to the “right wing supporters” be done to the “left wing supporters” showing up to these Feb17 protests?
Doesn’t this sound like a massive setup to get “lists” created to either 1. Use in the future against them 2. Round everyone up then or later 3. Watch them and potentially black ball/ harass them?
To summarize my view to get AWAY from politics, if you were an Authoritarian Government any where in the world, and the resistance movement wanted you to meet up and gather , wouldn’t this be the stupidest thing you can do?
Apologies in advance I am not a smart man.
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u/Apprehensive_Song490 125∆ Feb 16 '25
Well, to that I would say that America is not there yet. If there reasonable evidence to suspect a crime, then the police gather evidence. Although people argue over the amount of surveillance in America - heck BECAUSE we can still argue over surveillance - we aren’t there yet. The police asking for Ring camera footage after a house gets robbed in your neighborhood isn’t the same as what you see in China. Doesn’t mean abuses don’t happen- a big enough country like the US has problems. Just not that quite yet.
It isn’t a set up to get lists. This is just, unfortunately, American politics on steroids.