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I will continue to say this until things change:

America has trickled in a huge portion of rights violations through minority populations. All those abuses done to black people by police were not all false flags. What is happening now has always been allowed. WE as a country allowed it. This is what we deserve.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins

> your claim of it "never" happening is obviously false

:neckbeard: There is no such thing as hyperbole, m'lady. If you say "this never happens", you must literally mean "never". Absolute terms are always used in the most literal possible sense. Everyone claiming that, in informal communications, "never" is nearly always used to mean "the opposite case is rare enough that it can be assumed never to happen".

:globalistlocated: How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.

:neckbeard: People never talk like that.

> we have countless examples of laws that were used to censor and later repealed explicitly because of their abuse as a tool to censor.

Unintentional censorship was not being discussed. A non sequitur, but it has now been said three times (I'm going to count Delete-and-Redraft as distinct posts, because that's how it's implemented and that's how the UI presents it, and Mastodongles can start supporting 'Update' as an activity type if they want to stop fucking this up so badly) with no examples cited.

> the law will follow what the people want the law to be

Citation needed.

> we have to look at how and why those minds were changed WRT past laws if we want to have a similar effect.

I think you make some unwarranted assumptions about my goals for the future and my methods for achieving those goals, man.

You go ahead and try to win those hearts and minds (though you might want to try a little more fuzziness when parsing natural language). PRISM happened because a promise from the government does not mean jack shit, and everyone saying "Well, let's fix the law so they can't do that!" has clearly forgotten that the previous administration had done the same thing, and the one before that, and the one before that, and every single time there was an outcry and every single time they promised not to sidestep the law or abuse power. Trusting power-hungry psychopaths to color inside the lines was never part of the plan, I'm way past caring what any of them promise or what the law says they can do. You don't make them promise to stop, you make it impossible for them to continue.

Tu fui ego eris, dude, I'll see you when you make it to this side of the river.

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@shitpostbot what the fucking fuck fuck is this fucking "thing" put it out of it's fucking misery
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