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Comment by boxed

1 month ago

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How so? The Patriot Act was arguably the kick-off of the state of constant mass surveillance that is ubiquitous today.

  • Arguably? I think its confirmed. The re-approval of the act under multiple administrations is horrifying.

  • The problem with the Patriot Act was mass surveillance of people who didn't need to be surveilled. In this situation we are talking about a group of people with support for genocide in the double digit percentages.

    • I guarantee that if my grandparents were expelled from their homes, brutalised, or killed, their homes bulldozed and annexed by the occupiers, and for the past 2 years I was the target of the most brutal genocide since Rwanda, I would probably wish worse than death to my oppressors too. But let's not get sidetracked...

      PS: It's also known that for Israel and its AI killing machines, "terrorist" is defined as "male between 14 and 45". Cannot get more "mass targeted" than that.

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