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I would argue, that is the reason we got so many people to go out to No Kings.
Ok go ahead and surveil 7 million people, what the hell is that gonna do?
At that point you are just demonstrating your illegitimacy as a governing body while overloading your surveillance capacity with normal everyday people that are an overwhelming distraction from your authoritarian aims.
I would agree with this. Even with AI tools, trying to flag 2% of the country as "Antifa" and do anything meaningful will be entirely either impractical or a bridge too far.
if you're the government, and you have a face matched to a name via driver's license, then you know where that person works. it wouldn't take much to draft a mass email to all employers saying something to the effect of "you will terminate the employment of the following list of names, or YOU will face legal consequences." and how many employers have we seen so far actually stand up to this sort of coercion?
it would actually only take a few high profile people losing their jobs and livelihoods to achieve the fear effect of "they fired one of our senior executives for being at the protest! i better stop going to protests"
and before you say that'll never happen, take another look at some of the things that, 10+ years ago, we would have said "it'll never happen here" that are literally happening here
i'm not saying don't protest--just realize this isn't your grandpa's america. or even your dad's, or yours. this is nazi germany, except with telescreens in everyone's pocket that they're willingly feeding every detail of their lives to
I think the mistake here is not to use our voices, for the sound of our voices together is unmistakable.
I never said these things wouldn't happen.
don't worry. trump and the entire GOP are fucking morons, and haven't taken into account the vast disparity in the population and diversity of the USA vs 1920s-30s germany. and all they're doing is creating a larger and larger group of "nothing left to lose" people
in my heart I knew they had already lost when they directly pissed off the cat ladies
since they only ever engage with fascist echo chambers where the Übermensch ideal is "woman = breeding cow, servant," and for some reason, don't like cats, they hadn't the faintest clue how so blithely attacking women who love cats might possibly backfire.
the protests are a move in the right direction, but everyone needs to cover their face. including the eyes. and leave the phone at home. also cover tattoos
I think this is an unrealistic concern. If that happened, every single person fired will sue the federal government for first amendment violation in addition to other things a real lawyer could probably point out. It'd be like the Kimmel situation x100, and remember that even some prominent Republicans pushed back against that.
They’re coming for us all. Ask Comey and Bolton and Giuliani.
GOOD. Double our numbers.