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Seeing a lot of people on Twitter today like "how the hell did we give the president his own personal gestapo???" This. This is how. Many years of incrementalism and "common sense" pushes for law and order legislation @JordanUhl/1285701593418039296On twitter.com
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All these structures and agencies they tell us are for "illegals", "criminals", and "drug dealers"? They're for you, actually. Always have been.Permalink On twitter.com
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Not even the only instance. CBP for example, maintains a high-tech surveillance system at the US border. To keep out "illegal immigrants" and "gangs" and "criminals" of course. dhs.gov/publication/border-surveillance-systems-bssPermalink On twitter.com
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That surveillance technology gets perfected at the border. After which, suddenly and mysteriously, they start showing up in police departments across the country gen.medium.com/the-government-is-testing-mass-surveillance-on-the-border-before-turning-it-on-americans-4348e3da784bPermalink On twitter.com
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Companies from Amazon to Microsoft are tripping over themselves for contracts that give the US government the technology it needs to identify and track opponents of the state. vice.com/en_us/article/7x59z9/the-facial-recognition-system-amazon-sells-to-cops-can-now-detect-fearPermalink On twitter.com
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Don't let liberals get away with saying "this isn't normal" or "this isn't what our democracy is about" or "Trump is destroying our democracy". This is not only normal, not only our so-called "democracy" working as designed, but the logical conclusion to decades of US politicsPermalink On twitter.com
