Comment on How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Take a list of everyone who opposes them.

  Sort by strength of opposition.

  Use every tool of intelligence gathering to comb over each person’s life looking for crimes to charge them with.

  Store opposition in prison until power is secured, then whatever the Supreme Leader wishes.

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  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think putting 70million people in concentration camps is going to go over well with the rest of the population.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They don’t need to target everyone, just the people with the aptitude and inclination for leadership and organization.

      The goal wouldn’t be to arrest everyone who doesn’t like them, just to prevent that anger from leading to the creation of a real political opposition movement.

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      • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A leader doesn’t seem necessary. The nonviolent resistance movement has been winning in the court of public opinion.

        But they can run around Tora Bora looking for the president of Antifa if they like.

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• Chulk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To track, intimidate and eventually disappear activists I imagine

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  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What, everyone? 2/3 of the country oppose the orangutan.

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    • Chulk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We have Steve Bannon suggesting that Trump send ICE to polling locations on election day . ICE is currently purchasing large warehouses across the United States so they have more capacity to jail people. ICE is now one of the most funded military orgs in the world.

      So…

      What, everyone?

      Yes. He will keep broadening the definition of “terrorist” and narrowing the definition of “citizen.” Not saying it will work, but I believe he will try. I think there’s plenty of evidence showing that it’s a real threat.

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    • witten@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They make examples of a few to cow the rest into submission. Classic authoritarianism playbook.

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      • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hasn’t worked. People are furious about the deaths and the kidnappings.

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