Well, apparently we are losing some freedoms.

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DZero

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American Stasi!


Doesn't even have to be entirely true - an atmosphere of paranoia is a great form of social control.

Thinking about it, AI really facilitates the panopticon. Real synergy there.
Bad idea, massively reduces performance. Maybe IA is being used to fully replace the lowest and mid tier workers.
 

Jaskalas

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Americans are denied world wide cooperation of health, science, and economics.
This sort of self-isolation is a direct threat to our health, safety, and well being.
America is now bleeding economic and scientific power. Making us all poorer and worse off.

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained

‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
 
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Americans are denied world wide cooperation of health, science, and economics.
This sort of self-isolation is a direct threat to our health, safety, and well being.
America is now bleeding economic and scientific power. Making us all poorer and worse off.

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained

‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
Our oligarch owners want Americans to be poor, sick, and dumb. That's how feudalism works best.
 
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Freedom of association and the right to speak of it are under attack.

Speaking in opposition to the President is currently illegal.
Not only are legal residents having their status revoked and deportations issued, not only are foreign visitors unlawfully detained, but news itself is under attack.
The message is clear, you must be loyal to the Emperor or else. There is no first amendment or other Bill of Rights under the tyranny of Trump and MAGA.

Trump threatens CBS with ‘substantial punishment’

 

nakedfrog

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Dumbfucks like Greenie will shrug and say he's just doing what he said he would do.

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Freedom of association and the right to speak of it are under attack.

Speaking in opposition to the President is currently illegal.
Not only are legal residents having their status revoked and deportations issued, not only are foreign visitors unlawfully detained, but news itself is under attack.
The message is clear, you must be loyal to the Emperor or else. There is no first amendment or other Bill of Rights under the tyranny of Trump and MAGA.

Trump threatens CBS with ‘substantial punishment’

And as he increasingly packs the federal courts with hyper partisan activist judges the judiciary is more and more inclined to kick the constitution to the curb for him.
 

nakedfrog

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Stephen Miller also talking about who is up for deportation.

 

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nakedfrog

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Trump follows up saying US Citizens will be deported.

Trump Says He's 'All For' Sending U.S. Citizens To El Salvador

It's the second time in a week that the Trump administration has said it wants to forcibly disappear U.S. citizens abroad.
“Does that include, potentially, U.S. citizens?”
Trump didn’t shy away: “I’m all for it,” he said.
Indeed.

 

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Jaskalas

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The freedom to travel, and the right to privacy.

‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada

A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation.
Atallah says CBP agents requested to look into his email on his phone, which he refused because of attorney client privilege.
"So I had to, under duress, give him permission to look through my email, through my priveleged information, and he made me write a statement, signed by me, saying that I gave him permission to look through the email," Atallah said.
 
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hal2kilo

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The freedom to travel, and the right to privacy.

‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada

A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation.
Atallah says CBP agents requested to look into his email on his phone, which he refused because of attorney client privilege.
"So I had to, under duress, give him permission to look through my email, through my priveleged information, and he made me write a statement, signed by me, saying that I gave him permission to look through the email," Atallah said.
Just out of curiosity, I checked to see if I were to take a cruise from Seattle to Alaska if I would be entering Canada. Apparently there is some agreement that the ships have to stop at a port in Canada on the way, and all of these questions are popping up and they may be seeking a waiver.

 

APU_Fusion

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The freedom to travel, and the right to privacy.

‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada

A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation.
Atallah says CBP agents requested to look into his email on his phone, which he refused because of attorney client privilege.
"So I had to, under duress, give him permission to look through my email, through my priveleged information, and he made me write a statement, signed by me, saying that I gave him permission to look through the email," Atallah said.
And he voted for Trump. In a video he flat out states he thought Trump would fix everything after Biden. FAFO. No sympathies for the ass.
 
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I believe Rubio is 'gaslighting'...

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Meanwhile... "GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement. ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion."

From https://bsky.app/profile/nickmiroff.bsky.social/post/3lmx6y7dl6c2i

I guess its expensive to kidnap and rendition a million plus folk to a cheap overseas prison.

Once this process has been normalised, they can expand their definition of undesirables to include friends and family members of local political troublemakers, the many far left activist judges, and reporters in the lame stream media who are clearly not on #TeamAmerica.... /s
 
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Looks like they picked up a US Citizen, and even though birth certificate has been produced, he's still in ICE custody.
 
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Fenixgoon

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Looks like they picked up a US Citizen, and even though birth certificate has been produced, he's still in ICE custody.
BUt TrUMP wOnt tArGeT non-CitZenS!

ICE is Gestapo/SS