There’s already stories of US citizens being detained despite having valid ID on them. There’s financial incentives for them to bring in as many people as possible and they don’t care if they get it wrong.

I bet it just checks the colour of people’s skins.

Democrats didn’t help themselves by running terrible candidates with shitty policies, yeah.

Yep, and despite all that and his first term half the US voters still figured he’d be a great President.

Yeah, I haven’t either. I don’t even know how I installed it (package manager or raw). Will need to look into that.

Over 18, but still young enough to not be predestined to become like the other billionaires I guess.

The media has been captured for decades. It’s literally the thesis of ‘Manufacturing Consent’.

Democrats always do this. They’re always ‘looking forward, not back’, and that meant that Nixon, Reagan, Bush Jr and Trump all got away with various crimes, and so did the minions that worked for all of them (like Roger Stone).

Democrats were falling under themselves saying ‘in this country we don’t prosecute our political opponents’, followed through with that promise, and now Trump is prosecuting them.

Wow, so intimidating.

I used to run it for a while (it might actually still be running, I’d need to check my VPS and delete it if it is), but I feel like RSS readers kind of got overtaken by Reddit (and Lemmy). I tried going back to it again a few times, but the lack of comments felt off after having experienced Reddit.

Oh yeah, of course, but it feels like it’s never part of the conversation, even among people whose opinions I respect and are, for example, super critical of AI and talking about enshittification and other issues in the online sphere, they never seem to take the step to check out Linux, or get off Twitter or whatever.

Yeah, very disappointed by RMS’ creepiness (the Epstein stuff isn’t the only thing), but he was 100% right about software freedom.

I can see Microsoft moving to the same sort of thinking as well. Apple already made Mac OS users jump through hoops when you want to install something from the internet or even through a third party package manager like homebrew.

And the open source movement is such a blind spot to the ‘left’ as well, even though technology freedom is critical if you want to be able to organise any type of resistance in the digital space.

Lemmy users largely get it, obviously, but centre left people will happily let themselves get locked into the Apple/Google walled gardens even though you’re just giving that company a ridiculous amount of power over you.

I mean, you could probably use them that way, but there’s no indication that they were planning on doing that. One of those devices is only ~$3000, so if you want to spam all of New York and the upside is a bunch of people sending you their life savings it’s not exactly an investment that’s out of reach for your average crime syndicate.

State actors would probably hack into the Telco systems themselves instead, which you can do without needing to be on the ground. Or they’d keep their DDoS device in their embassy and do it from there.

This looks like the gear normally used by gangs that do text spam scams, what makes this exactly out of the range for a run of the mill criminal syndicate? Unless they have some other information that they’re not sharing?

You’re assuming that the supreme court still cares about the spirit or letter of the law. It’s just a rubber stamp for whatever the right wants.

Said the guy whose previous job was to prop up Cameron’s conservative government?

The ‘good’ ones are still expected to have a fixed partner and be monogamous, which is definitely what Graham isn’t about if the rumours are to be believed.

Maybe he’s Nicki Minaj’s cousin who got a bad side effect from the vaccine.