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Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI.
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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This is the direct path from neoliberalism/conservatism to fascism that some of us have been warning about for decades.
Sure, the D's are better than the lowest bar known to man — mentally ill fascists and con artists — but fascism may have never succeeded without their own corruption, authoritarianism, and fealty to the plutocracy. They've spent decades building the most pervasive surveillance apparatus in history, collecting data from most computers on the planet, about most of the human population, and are doing nothing as the keys to the kingdom are handed to the Nazis.
From a European perspective, USA only had a right and far right party. Anything on the left side was killed long time ago.
McCarthyism, Southern Strategy, three letter agencies spending decades actively targeting/murdering activists; yeah it’s been rough.
Simply put, choosing the "lesser of two evils" over decades means you're sliding towards evil, regardless.
Right. You can't pick the lesser evil in the election today, then go do nothing, and expect good outcomes.
Harm reduction has a place but it's not the whole solution
Sadly, for many, participation ends at the ballot box. I'm sorry to say that I was that way before, too.
Its super fucked because they're even using it as a way to point out the real world difference it makes by saying that the Biden admin at least had oversight and inspectors general to prosecute misconduct but OOPS now they're all fired and nobody is going to stop it. Now the surveillance state is completely unmoored.
How could this happen?? I thought this wasn't the character of American democracy? I thought people were good and honest and followed the rules, so this must just be a misunderstanding?? Surely theres no way an entire administration comprised exclusively of foreign agents and bad actors would be able to abuse those systems because there were never any real rules just a general respect for the country and it's people?? We wouldn't blindly rely on the good faith of our representatives to maintain our constitution almost exclusively, RIGHT??