It still blows my mind that Republicans are ok with this shit. Back in the Obama administration they were still freaking out about getting secretly microchipped. Now they're all in on mass government surveillance, right out in the open. The sheer scale of brainwashing is off the fucking charts.
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They're ok with it as long as they don't perceive themselves to be the targets. If other people are suffering, they can sleep soundly. Republicans are literally monsters
Don't forget their fears more recently about 5G cellular radio waves and COVID vaccines with microchips in them...
Because it was never that they were afraid of this.
They were afraid they'd never get the opportunity to do it themselves.
“You just grabbing, like, random people, dude,” Gutiérrez said he told the agents after they scanned his face. The officials eventually dropped off Gutiérrez after driving for around an hour. For several days, he didn’t go anywhere, not even to the gym. Gutiérrez told his father at the time that he “got kidnapped.”
“This is a flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy project director for the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. “Immigration agents have no business scanning our faces with this glitchy, privacy-destroying technology—especially after often stopping people based on nothing more than the color of their skin or the neighborhood they live in.”