Boy, that makes you wonder.
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- me_myself_and_I@lemmy.worldEnglish52 minutes
In the 60s, the CIA proposed multiple false flag attacks and operations on Cuba to former President JFK that would be considered borderline terrorism today. Much in the same way that Trump is launching an invasion in Iran and Putin in Ukraine. Thankfully Kennedy did decline most of their proposals because he thought they crossed the line though he did grant them permission to do some basic things. Still not good he let them intervene at all though that’s not the worst thing the CIA has done.
17 minutesWhy would they? It’s makes them look horrible. But, that would be nothing compared to what this administration has done.
- SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish2 hours
They were never meant to. Surveillance is for suppressing citizens, not foreign dangers.
Every time you type the word b0mb, it gets recorded. Every URL you type, it gets recorded.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish2 hours
osama bin laden may be dead but he won with 911. Basically got us to destroy our own democracy.
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This is from 2015! Blast from the past. But I am willing to bet in the 11 years since then it is still true.
- cøre@leminal.spaceEnglish8 hours
It was never about terrorism. The govt saw a chance to leapfrog citizen surveillance by years instead of a steady profession and jumped at it so hard it wasn’t even subtle.
- bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
People forget Bush was head of the CIA, its all too coincidental that the government ended up with super spy powers on his watch.
- 3 hours
The patriot act was bipartisan.
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Exactly, and we now have someone in power who will weaponize that against critics and dissenters.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
Also fun: your own household furnishings or a toddler with a gun were always a greater danger to you than terrorism, speaking in terms of probabilities.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
I imagine that our euphemistically-named ‘defense contractors’ would be all for it.
You are a horrible parent if you have a gun anywhere near your toddler.
- PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
While true, that’s not relevant, good parents and non-parents can also get killed by toddlers with guns.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
You’re not wrong, but guns are a civic religion here in the US. There are lots and lots and lots of guns that are easily accessible by toddlers.
- Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish6 hours
Typical elitist liberal, where am I supposed to get the money for this gun safe? You want me to sell my brand new f-150?
No. Don’t be stupid. Use a credit card. You can have both, while playing for neither.
- harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish6 hours
Not much point having them if you never take them out of the safe.
Why are they accessible by toddlers? Have your “civic religions” not heard of a lockbox or even a high shelf?
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
No need to ask me questions like this as if I personally support it.
And yes, people here are aware of all the safety measures available. They just care more about convenience or otherwise don’t care at all.
Oh, yeah, sorry mate. I didn’t mean to imply you support it. I added the quotation marks because I wasn’t attributing them as your civic religions. I definitely didn’t mean to offend. Honestly, I’m just annoyed with some gun owners not taking the bare minimum protection measures, making those that do take precautions still look like twats. And, for the record, my opinion on gun control is that if you own a gun, you must control who has access to it, that you are responsible for its use/misuse, and that the governments shouldn’t have such a say on whether you’re allowed to own it. I’ve seen first hand what can happen when the citizens are fully unarmed, and I don’t particularly want to live through that again, so yes, you should be able to own a gun (safely stored).
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
I appreciate that. I hate it all too.
There have been some minor positive developments at least. A few of the school shooters in recent years have had their parents arrested and locked up for proven negligence. I hope it will become a trend.
This is the correct government/law official response, in my opinion, and I hope it’ll continue. Everyone is so focused on AI and privacy (not at all insignificant concerns), that gun restrictions seem to get passed pretty easily across the globe, and those “I can own a gun no matter what and leave it on the kitchen counter if I want to” blokes make it that much easier for those laws to pass. It worries me.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
Don’t look at me. I purposely didn’t have kids. Kids are awful.
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish7 hours
I purposely didn’t have kids, not because they’re awful, but because of unstoppable, irreversible climate change and ecocide.
And awful. The last thing I could ever want is coming home from work exhausted and have to take care of a screaming child who shit itself.
I just come home, feed my chickens, collect eggs, let the dog outside unsupervised while I leave the front door cracked so he can come in when he’s ready and crack a beer.
- webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 hours
As a parent i fully support this chance.
One of the reasons i do have kids is because i recognise how rational people who think critically of the current world will easily adopt this logic.
Meaning the future will be largely populated by children of people who are not capable to think critically.
I did always have a child-wish, so maybe it’s part excuse, but it’s a strategic excuse. Either humanity has irreversibly failed or it has not yet meaning i have to try increase the chance on future our survival. (No pressure on them though, they get to decide their future and i might win hope if i am lucy)
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish7 hours
Nah fuck that, we drive 200 other species to extinction per day. The faster earth shakes off its case of humanity, the better the rest of the natural worlds chances at rebounding in a million years become.
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You are a horrible parent if you have a gun
anywhere near your toddler.OK, so just call the police if somebody is in your house trying to murder you… Yea that makes sense… Hold on burglar, I’m on the phone with the cops, you just stay there until they get here… Your comment lacks any kind of common sense.
You are a horrible parent if you have a gun anywhere
Could have stopped there.
You are a horrible parent
Could have stopped there…
Oh fuck, that reminds me… gotta go!
Not sure if you’re talking about me or not, but I don’t live in a country that requires a firearm at all times because anyone can buy them 2 for 1 on sale at Wal Mart, and also I would make an awful parent which is why I don’t have kids.
Oh sorry, I was actually trying to make a self deprecating joke about myself. Or actually a hypothetical version of myself that had kids and was a bad parent.
Which is why I added the whole “talking about being a bad parent reminds me that I had to go take care of my kids” outro.
Clearly I’ll need to work on my material.
He thinks real drugs dealers don’t have guns lol, how adorable.
Lmao no worries! OP is being a massive cunt and had to block him so I wasn’t sure of the context. All good, friend <3
Blocking people just because you were completely wrong about guns, and who you don’t agree with. Of course. Just live in your echo chamber. That’s very cunty. You don’t understand that real drug dealers have guns, you know, like the cartel.
What are you going to stop a burglar with? Hugs??? That was a very idiotic thing to say. Do you not know how the world works? Just let the burglar attack you or your family until the cops get there…
If a bugler can get by my dogs without getting mauled to death, or my military training, god bless them.
Also, most robberies in Canada are done without firearms. Since… You know… They’re not exactly common here.
Also if you own a gun just to prevent imaginary robberies and dream of being able to shoot and kill someone, you might want to seek professional help. Most people don’t want to kill someone.
Burglars also have guns that can easily shoot your dog in the US. You are not even thinking about the US. I knew there was no way in hell you live in the USA with that comment. Robberies happen, this isn’t imaginary. You best be thankful you never lived in a dangerous neighbourhood. Nobody is actually wanting to kill a burglar. It’s was disgusting for you to even suggest that. Guns don’t always instantly kill people.
You best be thankful you never lived in a dangerous neighbourhood.
Then you didn’t know where I lived when I went to school in Toronto. Kitty-Corner from me was a pay by hour hotel. Lots of hookers, escorts, pimps, drugs, etc.
They just didn’t have guns. Because they’re hard to come by in Canada and don’t come with the same dick stroking reputation as it does in the States. No one cares about guns here because our country doesn’t masturbate over the idea of having them.
I’ve known multiple drug dealers in my life. None of them owned guns.
Perhaps you should self reflect that this problem you have with needing to “protect” your family with killing machines because other people have such easy access to those same killing machines is purely an America problem, not a global problem.
I hope you never use those guns on your family. Because statistically you are.
There is no way in hell you could compare drug dealers in Canada to ones in The United States. Real drug dealers have guns. Those drug dealers you have seen in Canada are nothing. Oh, look I am going to protect all my stash with a knife… Nope! And you can actually be a safe gun owner.
- Lojcs@piefed.socialEnglish9 hours
Don’t I hate it when yout call it “the government”. TIL is just usa_news_2 now.
I know I’m usually posting silly and sarcastic things, but I’m serious with this one. Is that not the original definition of the term “domestic terrorist”? Maybe that’s what they did (redefined their citizens)?
The article is from 2015, so without defending mass surveillance: is there nothing more recent? It’s possible they did that in the 11 years since then after all.
- Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish10 hours
They haven’t really made newer claims apparently, but on the other hand there’s this, surveillance backdoors are dangerous;
- 10 hours
Even if, its gotta be very rare. We know about so many recent cases of attacks where it turned out they already knew the suspect and were watching them, but never intervened.
Yes, smart devices in your home. Wi-Fi can be used to track your movements. Literally see through walls, your heartbeat and even track your breathing. Have fun with that information. Actually, that might be more of the older capabilities. When I think about it. For example, your internet provider could possibly tap in and view motion in the home. Especially if the home has been mapped out for the newer routers and such. If they actually wanted to, there is always a way.
- rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish8 hours
They can tell when I move the coffee table through the cleaning robot.
I just gave them some more info about a type of surveillance. Maybe you should think again.
the question was, is it still true that no acts is terrorism have been prevented in the last 11 years
- Lojcs@piefed.socialEnglish9 hours
Which is irrelevant to the article you posted. They weren’t asking for your theories about how mass surveillance could be done, they were asking if the claim in the title was still correct.
9 day old account with 50 posts posting a decade old article and replying to a question with an unrelated wall of text is a huge red flag imo
- NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish8 hours
Why would the government of america need to wiretap your phone when your alexa knows what you dreamt about last night, your web browser knows what you paused to take a look at when scrolling, your phone reports where it is and what it’s doing to every cell tower in range, and there is a network of fully internet connected sattelites overhead at all times capable of resolving images at CENTIMETRE scale.
- Lojcs@piefed.socialEnglish7 hours
What does this have to do with literally anything mentioned so far? Did you reply to the wrong comment?
Honestly you should not be on the internet if you can’t tell the difference between asking if an information is up to date and whatever the fuck you thought I said.
If this is the media literacy level on the fediverse no wonder the world is fucked
- Lojcs@piefed.socialEnglish7 hours
Post:
46 migrating zebras eaten by crocodiles so farComment:
Not that I suport the crocodiles, but this is from the last migration season, are there newer numbers?Reply:
Crocodiles can crush bones like tissue paper. They can remain invisible underwater until they strike.
Who cares if it is a new account, that is actually irrelevant. And a comment about actual surveillance isn’t irrelevant with this!
The gap between the signing of the Patriot Act and when that article was posted is 14 years apart. I highly doubt anything has changed since then.
what is this even supposed to mean?
“the gap between the Battle of Hastings and the completion of the Bayeux Tapestry is likely a few years apart. I highly doubt the government of England has changed since then”
- CameronDev@programming.devEnglish10 hours
Let’s say they did stop an event, they have no reason to actually publicise it. Worst case, they publicise a technique, best case, no one believes them anyway.
Youre asking them to prove a negative.
- tburkhol@slrpnk.netEnglish9 hours
They announce pretty regularly when they’ve entrapped some bunch of hicks into fake bomb plot. Why would they not announce that they’ve interrupted a legit, grassroots plot?
- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
“Let’s just assume the governments and agencies that allowed the global elite to rape thousands of children on private islands, for decades, are actually “the goodies” who defend ethics and morality, instead of the criminally corrupt psychopaths their actions have repeatedly indicated for the last ~80 years; supporting genocide, committing war crimes, overthrowing democratically elected governments, arming terrorists and dictators, etc, etc.”
It’s either that, or western “intelligence” agencies are all so horrifically incompetent — mass surveillance is such an abject failure — that they missed the elite raping thousands of children on an island for decades… either way, your tax dollars were used to protect and enable child rape… Call me old fashioned, but I thought the entire purpose of a democratic law enforcement and “intelligence” was to oppose child rape, regardless of how valuable the kompromat might be.
Come to think of it, I don’t think there is any combination of words you could assemble that would make me believe everyone complicit doesn’t deserve to spend the rest of their rotten, putrid, worthless lives incarcerated.
- CameronDev@programming.devEnglish7 hours
Because even if they did, people would write it off as “entrapped some bunch of hicks”?
- Klox@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
They would 100% charge people with criminal conspiracy to commit terrorism if they had the evidence. There are plenty of those charges too, just from actual police. They fucking just charged antifa protestors with it. Our government is just fucking stupid, ugh.
- CameronDev@programming.devEnglish7 hours
Parallel construction means they don’t need to use the original evidence. Your administration is stupid, but not everyone doing the work is.
To be clear, I’m not pro-dragnet-survelliance, it has massive downsides, I’m just pointing out that any upside (if it exists at all) is entirely hidden from everyone else.
- 9 hours
And, and–actual terrorists who beat cops to death and spread human feces over the Capitol building did at most four years and got pardoned.
They didn’t, there is no say. Why would they say a technique?? They could just say they actually stopped somebody without saying how, buuuuuuut they didn’t stop anybody anyway.
- CameronDev@programming.devEnglish10 hours
So, they say “We stopped this event, can’t say how”, and you’d just believe that?
Lots of people buy into much more unrealistic propaganda about what happens in this country, every single day 😅
If it was a top secret way, yea. They are tight lipped. Remember, they just said they threw Bin Laden’s body in the ocean and that was that.
Oh yea, UFO stuff and such. That is a good point. Well, now it is all wacky isn’t it…
- NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish8 hours
That ufo shit is smoke and mirrors to disguise their concentration camps (ICE rape camps where even the kids get pregnant) and arming/ funding of genocides worldwide, oh and the Iran invasion they launched to distract from the JE files they’re all in. Its really bad out there.
- 10 hours
No it doesn’t. It’s a government program that’s designed to funnel money and that’s all.
- DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
No but now you can sociopath in the government. Not everybody gets to sociopath in the government. Edit: National Sociopath Agency
