I still remember Chris Christie in the 2020 GOP primary trying his hardest to justify the patriot act when Rand Paul criticized him. sadly even 20 years after the Iraq war began u can scare a lot of americans into supporting shit just by saying terrorist attack.

that's true, but if i'm being completely honest, it's hard to blame the average american for it, just like you can't blame the average dutchie for thinking shelf toilets are normal. when you grow up in an environment like that, if you consume media that tries to scare the living shit out of you every hour, every day of the week, it really requires some genuine political interest and intelligence to break out of that and look at the bigger picture. system's fundamentally "broken" (if you look at it from an idealistic point of view, ofc it's by design) and rigged. this can and will never be solved by voting for corporate politicians, no matter how smart, smooth, idealistic, or likeable they might seem (obama, buttigieg come to mind)...

This is the most cogent statement I have ever heard from you.
Keep it up.

My life revolves around working in a aero and space machinist shop, going home to spend some time online/play games etc, and going back to work. There is absolutely nothing I put out on internet or on social media that can harm me really. By exercising proper control over the "tap" which is me and my actions there is absolutely 0 reason for "big brother" to come kill me. And to be frank, US Big Brother is not as evil and bent on killing its citizens for no reason as most people on the internet crying about NSA/Facebook invading and controlling their extremely important lives as its made out to be.

In fact given the level of degeneracy, and left/right wing trash, I wouldn't mind if levels of police brutality against these half-Unabombers would quadruple, too many psychopaths are given free way with what they say and how they influence the public with their shit.

we also transitioned way too quickly into a news consuming society. reading the newspaper or listening to a radio broadcast was a very small part of most people's lives, nightly news changed that a bit but even then it was a 30 minute segment for most people a few times a week covering blandly reported large events. 24-7 news ramped it up but even then being a CNN watcher 24-7 or Fox News made you a wierdo. then social media came along and took over under the guise of social interaction, where it stayed in it's niche for a VERY short time, and now news is inescapable unless you entirely unplug from normal society. the news is inescapable, and politics worldwide is the lens of focus for all news.

We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken Myspace and Facebook. Twitter and reddit and instagram fell there bravely while the rest retreated to the Chamber of…Tumblr. We are still ho{ldin}g...but hope …Musk's party went five days ago but today only four returned. The pool is up to the wall at Youtube. The Watcher in the Data took Google--we cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep. They are coming.

i think there was a slight misunderstanding. the government surveillance and police killings were seperate points regarding the issue of american freedom. i wasn't trying to suggest that the government is collecting all that data in order to find an optimal way to kill people for whatever reason.
these issues are just indirectly connected for the most part. police killings are a result of poor training, firearm proliferation, racism, warrior culture, economic struggles and not "the government" targeting individuals based on data they collected with their comprehensive spying programs, lol.

Who cares? I'm not saying 'free speech' is better elsewhere, I'm saying 'free speech' doesn't matter, it's only there because it's not dangerous and it makes people feel good through catharsis.


IDC, he's the king of all pedophiles over there on Nonce Island, now. That's just how it is.