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Under the Biden administration, ICE records show the agency deployed Clearview widely, even as officials there charged with monitoring the technology were in the dark about how it was being used and by whom.

This is the direct path from neoliberalism/conservatism to fascism that some of us have been warning about for decades.

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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
From a European perspective, USA only had a right and far right party. Anything on the left side was killed long time ago.

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- Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  McCarthyism, Southern Strategy, three letter agencies spending decades actively targeting/murdering activists; yeah it’s been rough.
  
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- Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  and conservatives are still taught there is a left. were a center right at best, far-far-right at worst. even in west coast area, people that are transplants to the west coast are often more conservative than the people living here, so they bring it to the west and make it more conservative. nimbyism part of it, rich white people often are on the right,
  
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GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

This is the direct path from neoliberalism/conservatism to fascism that some of us have been warning about for decades.

Simply put, choosing the “lesser of two evils” over decades means you’re sliding towards evil, regardless.

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- jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Right. You can’t pick the lesser evil in the election today, then go do nothing, and expect good outcomes.
  
  Harm reduction has a place but it’s not the whole solution
  
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  - GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sadly, for many, participation ends at the ballot box. I’m sorry to say that I was that way before, too.
    
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Auntievenim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Its super fucked because they’re even using it as a way to point out the real world difference it makes by saying that the Biden admin at least had oversight and inspectors general to prosecute misconduct but OOPS now they’re all fired and nobody is going to stop it. Now the surveillance state is completely unmoored.

How could this happen?? I thought this wasn’t the character of American democracy? I thought people were good and honest and followed the rules, so this must just be a misunderstanding?? Surely theres no way an entire administration comprised exclusively of foreign agents and bad actors would be able to abuse those systems because there were never any real rules just a general respect for the country and it’s people?? We wouldn’t blindly rely on the good faith of our representatives to maintain our constitution almost exclusively, RIGHT??

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