We already know Amazon and whatnot spy on us with things like Amazon Alexa (if you bought one you’re stupid), but I’m 100% convinced that privacy is impossible if you’re around something that connects to WiFi and has a camera or speaker.

Like have you heard of the kinda stuff the CIA and other parts of the US government did during the cold war? Now imagine what they could do with the full force of modern tech.

I don’t mean to fear monger, this is just the kinda stuff I’m thinking about rn, most things would have to be “ignored” or not recorded as a data entry by the algorithm just for practical reasons.

Anonymity doesn’t exist online, if you want community away from the prying eyes of Uncle Sam, or Putin, or the UK, or Mossad, or whoever else, then you need to meet people IRL.

This is also why retro-tech is better than modern stuff, because there’s less avenues for you to be spied on.

The greatest minds and the greatest psychologist have spent decades working on how to spy on you without you thinking about and to figure out how to make you not think at all. It’s why I believe things like ChatGPT are a psyop, a partial reason as to why everything is going online only, digital touchscreens and stuff (the rest of the reasons is corporations are greedy). You are not immune to propaganda, but you can take mental medication against it, read books, go outside, and never stop learning.

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    Literally the fucking left, what do you want to me to tell you? They’ve all fucking agreed to these things, name anything that is “leftist” and they’re drooling for the surveillance state

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        By this logic, there’s leftists nowhere, Marx would be rolling in his grave looking at the average “Communist” or “Socialist” in any country

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            It is objectively leftist, leftism isn’t just “muh communism”, Leftism includes so many ideologies, the American Republican Party is a leftist party by global standards if we’re being serious

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                Calling the American Republican Party fascist is ridiculous, the Chinese Communist Party checks most boxes of Fascism and is way closer than the American Republican Party but few will criticise China for their fascist tendencies but will play up the tendencies of the American Republican Party and write them off as Fascist

                The “Everyone I don’t like is Hitler” is one of the most braindead political takes imaginable and it shouldn’t even apply here because I’m not sure if you’re ready for the bombshell that is Hitler wasn’t really a fascist and he was more hopping on a trend with a set of pre-established non-Fascist doctrines

                The implication is that there is only one generally bad political ideology and it is Fascism which also implies that the world had no bad political ideology until fucking Mussolini

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                    The first sentence you are saying as satire is genuinely the argument against my point because my point is that “Fascism” isn’t literally the only bad thing to exist and not everything bad is instantly fascism

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                Basically everything from Bosnia to Botswana to Indonesia to Japan which is the vast majority of the world population, have leftist parties that are more conservative and right-wing than the American Republican Party

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                Gay people and women are seen as lesser by majority of people globally, the American Republican Party sees both as equal, that puts them to the left of literally majority of the planet

                Or is Uzbekistan secretly super accepting and I’m just ill-informed?

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        Have you talked to these people? Ask them if they think there should be limits to things like Free Speech, they will say Yes and for there to be limits, you need to be surveiling all speech

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            If you do not regularly enforce a law, is it really a law? Or just something to use against someone you dislike if you are in a position of power?

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                Look at how many murders are unsolved in 1970 as compared to now, and look how many get solved by the state having a surveillance state, so fucking many get solved by cameras, so I’d actually wager that practically yes, in a big society, you do need a surveillance state or murder is only a crime for dumbasses (and yes, having eye witnesses act as secret informants is a surveillance state)

                We live in a society where everyone deserves freedom and security but in practice, basically everyone gets neither

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                    What’s the huge difference if the government can access any of those gas station cameras at any time?