Spoiler alert. You are already in the database. He just wants to make it legal.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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Not sure how much legality matters anymore, "normalize" or "desensitize" might be better words here. Ugh. I hate that's an actual sentence I just typed. And to think there are certainly alternate timelines unimaginably worse than this. My heart breaks for alternate me. 😑
By making it legal, Trump can enforce using it to all state agencies and not just ICE who do not care about the law. I do not know how much it matters for the FBI.
I wish it was just trump. Remember Snowden in 2013? I can only imagine the level of surveillance they have nowadays.
Marketing too... You look at the history of psychology and marketing and how it was bad with cable tv and magazines and politics as well in that era. But now we have our entire lives tracked and psychological manipulation working on us basically constantly.
The human story isn't a genuine one anymore, the path of humanity is created artificially. Our own lives probably aren't the natural lives we were meant to have. We are losing genuine humanity.
...and this is what we are supposed to be willing to die to defend.
Marketers / advertisers are corrupt psychologists (the competent ones anyway), or to use oldspeak propogandists. Some timeless words for consideration.
“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945
Gahh.... It goes deeper!!
I like the idea of calling advertisers corrupt psychologist.
But I think it's to the point even the psychology and academic industries get bought out. In a way almost like the prison system. I think we have reached a point people can go to school, get a career, and live the American dream, successfully in their eyes and in the eyes of America, without realizing in the end they are working for something that abuses honest humanity.
I hate being OCD and going down these rabbit holes. I used to just settle with the idea 50% of anything is evil and leave it at that. But now it seems like the majority is either evil or completely owned/useless in terms of living for genuine humanity. So many people are used.
I'm on the list.
It's called being a registered Democrat.
You mean to tell me that such a database doesn't already exist?
Have you been to the DMV, or Department of Human Services?
They do not talk to eachother. At all. Your personal documents you carry on you are the database entry.
That just means that the lowly, customer-facing peons that work for government offices don't have access to any such master database.
Most people work for companies that hold information inaccessible to them. Other government databases would definitely be on that list.
that database is PALINTIR linked most likely, and likely targeting leftists, progressive democratic dissidents mostly.
By dissident, do you mean anyone who commits a thought crime?
Yes.
As if we haven't been under constant surveillance and our privacy data mined for corporations for decades.
Regular Americans don't understand.
And people always talk about privacy issues being about law and legality. But the darker issue is the info being used for manipulation.
Dystopia has been here, but everyone is ignorant. That's sounds mean but it's true. Like if you detox from all the privilege and the entertainment people use to escape reality, then you start to see how far we have gone into the dark dystopic side of humanity. It's already to the point it's too late.
It’s already to the point it’s too late.
Until they overreach, and the backlash cometh. The pendulum of history keeps swinging. Here's hoping it's a doozy.
Palantir also has this database. I am in it. You are it. Have been for months.
My fucking thought. Many states in Germany are fucking stupid and are contracting Palantir for police work. And for some illegal reasons they have access to the digital medical records of all citizen who did not opt-out.
Ok, is it my turn now to say waht I want to do to him?
TCB?
Jokes on him,I'm already in at least a dozen.
I think the only new piece here is Trump wants to link in voter data.
Compared to google they're fucking amateurs.
Anyone know if these would be subject to FOIA?