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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 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.