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Ideally it doesn't matter, I'd rather my taxes go to storing guns while people are on vacation or not using their second home than having people die because they felt there were too many hoops to jump through. Also, guns not being stolen while people are on vacation or whatever is also strictly good from a public safety standpoint so it's kinda win-win.

Similarly, ideally the process is sealed box to sealed box possession, in other words the government has no idea what they're storing within reason. Gun laws change constantly and can be hard to stay on top of so I'd rather someone get their homemade 3D printed ghost machine gun grenade launcher back than lots of people die because they were worried they might get arrested for trying to be safe.

I mean, net result the same, it gets dark out

The one "saving grace" is that CECOT isn't so much a traditional prison as it is a slave manufacturing complex straight out of the Stat Wars Andor series. It's in their interest to keep everyone alive as long as they can keep them passive.

It comes down to looking at the chain they can use to link a post to you. You should be able to express yourself fully without fear of retribution.

First and most importantly, get a password manager and use unique passwords for everything, this covers the overwhelmingly likely scenarios. All your online accounts should either be ~14+ character "dl+ruHgGv6-c0$1hh7" style passwords or 4+ random word "correct horse battery staple" style passwords. The password manager should generate them for you.

Make sure your phone has a password and consider using it instead of biometrics (face/fingerprint unlock). Passwords can't typically be compelled but they can force you to unlock things with your face/fingerprints. Enable whole disk encryption on any computers that have access to your password manager or accounts. Turn these systems off when you're away or asleep. Enable automatic reboot on your phone if supported so it will reboot itself if not unlocked after a set amount of time, preferably 12-24 hours max. This sounds dumb but makes it 10x harder to break into if you're taken into custody due to how phone encryption works.

If you like social media, create accounts that aren't in your name and have no common links (different email addresses, passwords, user names, etc). Do so over a VPN or Tor, ideally with an exit node outside the country and use email aliases through proton or similar so they're all different. Never access them from a non-VPNed connection, your IP is logged every time you connect and kept for who-knows how long on the servers. Rotate these accounts so that your opinions and posts aren't all connected to one identity. If you accidently post something that identifies you (you will make mistakes and should plan for it), that limits the damage to only the posts associated with that account rather than all your activity on that site. Stay logged out of Google/Facebook/Twitter etc as much as possible or use incognito/container tabs to keep those logins isolated from your other web activity. Disable history on everything! Google search, Google maps, Google location history, YouTube, your browser, EVERYTHING. Most of the stuff you see in court is just "well their Google history said they searched for XYZ so clearly they're a terrorist".

If you're really enterprising, setup an old computer that's only for social media and has the VPN enabled full time. Bonus points for using Tails Linux as the operating system but if you keep to the above it's just an added layer of safety.

Right now the stuff we're seeing is mostly low hanging fruit, they seem to be targeting people by literally browsing Canary Mission. They're not employing particularly sophisticated methodology yet. That may change though so the above guards against that, at least somewhat. Your mission isn't to be able to resist the full attention of the NSA, it's to be much more difficult than average so they turn their limited resources elsewhere because they have a quota to meet that week.

Let this be a lesson that nobody is immune to phishing or opsec lapses. It can happen to anyone, including security pros. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you're too smart, make sure you have multiple layers of defense.

Yeah the article is just rehashing a wapo article that's linked, the original one is much clearer

Bernie has been trying most of his life, but recent events have finally made it obvious enough that the average American can wrap their head around the concept and give enough of a shit to maybe consider voting based on that.

I think it's simple enough, they're trying to convince more people that we need to get big money out of politics. Bernie is probably also trying to pass the torch (and his followers) to someone young who can continue the fight after he's gone.

Is hard to say for sure exactly how everything is going to pan out given that random dark horse events seem to drive US politics so hard. The administration could say or do something completely unhinged tomorrow that ends up galvanizing massive support for who knows what. I think AOC and Bernie rightfully recognize that they need to raise awareness of the problem to maximize the probability things go in a better direction. I don't get the feeling they're overly concerned with how that happens because completely restructuring the Dems is not a hyper likely outcome.

All that said, forcing the Dems to coalition build with a nascent anti-money faction in the same way the tech/crypto bros and libertarians were able to force the GOP to might be a possibility.

Who the fuck buys these things anyway

The problem is there's a very real risk the American people will view the move as illegitimate and prevent the land from being taken in the future, ie under a new admin that jails trump or something. The point of collateral is to reduce risks, not introduce new and exciting ones. Nobody is going to accept lower rates on this unless the aforementioned quid pro quo is real, in which case the deal is already illegal and the downside risks now include prison.

Yes this is idealistic, but the threat is still real and that's how finance people calculate interest.