Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Exactly. It’s the canary in the coalmine.

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• KIKILOVE@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I sure hope nobody's carpet bombed.

  Like never again

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, USA would probably have a better society were it carpet-bombed and then rebuilt. Or at least were it to experience a big war on its territory. Like, despite their flaws, many of the EU countries, and many others. Many of your problems are from misunderstanding dignity and strength ; war teaches you to respect the weak and to understand that it’s a sacrifice to be strong. Unfortunately that means a lot of murder, and to do a lot of murder, you pay with ever more murder. So I don’t want for that to happen, but at the same time I’m not sure if there’s even any other way to teach these things.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is how I see it as a US citizen. Our violence is boomeranging hard which ok I don’t wish it on others but yes absolutely this is the future of the US.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You know, for those of us who are not Americans, such statements sound completely devoid of empathy, as if something could only worry you if it “were the future for America”. And it really seems a pattern. It’s as if any crime were only real for you all there if it were somehow directed against America. I’m not even talking about being tone deaf, it’s just really strange how American think.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    such statements sound completely devoid of empathy

    Only enough empathy for 330M people?

    You sound like a real grade-A asshole.

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  • film@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “you all” Nice.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t take it literally.

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