When does a state officially count as a police state? Like, whats the red line here?
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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Yes, yes you are. Hint: people are comparing ICE to Nazi Germanys GeStaPo for a reason.
The comparison is a natural one, because of their overt Nazi ideology. In and of itself, however, ICE is comparable to any secret police force—every autocracy has its own unit that makes dissidents disappear and spreads fear and terror among the population. That's just the way it is.
Yes, the US has been a police state for 250 years. The slavery apparatus wasn't held up by magic. The Black Panthers didn't fall apart on their own. This is how the country has always been
... who doesn't know it? We've been there for at least a decade in the US
Oh, we know it.
Atm mind reading technology exists. In addition to the reading of thoughts, emotional states can be detected.
Thomas R. Insel
In December, 2015, Dr. Insel joined Verily, a health technology start-up emerging from Google X.[17] At Verily, he founded and led the mental health team with a focus on digital phenotyping, using smartphone signals for measuring behavior and mood.
They changed this portion recently. When I discovered this this page. It said something like "technology that enables the detection of emotional states via devices"