Comment on Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 days agoAt a certain point, you’re fucked anyways - if the administration goes even further fascist eventually they’ll connect you to SOMETHING, even if it’s some asshole ex co-worker telling the Gestapo they once overheard you speaking critically about President Tucker Carlson. Opsec is important and should be taken seriously, but we need to always keep our security and safety in perspective, and always keep in mind that the security/safety we feel from the status quo is 99% illusory.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Give me the man and I will give you the case against him is a saying that was popularized in the Soviet Union and in Poland in the period of the People’s Republic of Poland, attributed to the Stalinist jurist Andrey Vyshinsky, or the Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria. It refers to the miscarriage of justice in the form of the abuse of power by the jurists, who could find any defendant guilty of “something”, if they so desired.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Before that, it was attributed to Richelieu.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The wikipedia article cites several attributions over the years, including Richelieu who seems to be the earliest.