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How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us
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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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To what end, though? To find out if people oppose them? We do.
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.
I don’t think putting 70million people in concentration camps is going to go over well with the rest of the population.
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.
A leader doesn’t seem necessary. The leaderless 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.
100%
In some sense, they're using modern technology to mass produce propaganda but the people actually directing things are still stuck in the 1900s mindset when regards to thinking about power.
Communication Technology has made these kinds of diffuse movements possible, that's why they're trying desperately to create an 'antifa' to fight against. They want a conflict with a target that they can slander/attack and instead they're just getting shit spontaneously from every possible angle.
They're fighting a 20th century battle with 21st century technology. Like Russia using armor to invade a country armed with Javelins.
To track, intimidate and eventually disappear activists I imagine
What, everyone? 2/3 of the country oppose the orangutan.
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...
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.
They make examples of a few to cow the rest into submission. Classic authoritarianism playbook.
Hasn’t worked. People are furious about the deaths and the kidnappings.
And something people don’t understand about the East German regime — people calculate that half the country was spying on the other, implying the stasi was half the population. But it was neighbors denouncing each other as counterrevolutionaries over petty squabbles.
Donald has accidentally united people against him, not divided us.
Dude, totally. I'm just talking about the playbook they're using. I'm not saying it's remotely working for them.