“I know a lot of you are worried that these surveillance cameras are from that horrible company Flock that helped ICE hunt, kidnap and kill so many in broad daylight this year—well, they’re not, so don’t worry,” said Mayor Wilson. “These cameras that help ICE and the IDF hunt, kidnap and kill innocent people are from a way more successfully evil $25 billion corporation called Axon that literally designed their Seattle office to look like the inside of the Death Star—Geekwire did a whole photo feature on it, check it out! Pretty cool, fun stuff if you’re a white, rich and privileged enough bootlicker to not be scared by any of it. So, yeah, don’t worry – the cameras aren’t from Flock, they’re from a totally different company that will terrify and enrage you just as much if not more if you read up on them even the tiniest bit.”

Unlike Flock, Mayor Wilson emphasized that Seattle’s new surveillance cameras are from a company that President Trump bought $5 million in stocks from before being awarded hundreds of millions in ICE and Border Patrol contracts.

“If you were worried that these cameras would be owned and operated by Flock, relax – they’re actually owned and operated by a company that’s most likely even more corrupt,” Mayor Wilson said. “So if you seen any crazy online commenters blathering on about how the only difference between Flock and Axon is that the latter might be an even bigger threat to public safety and privacy, don’t worry, they’re 100% correct.”

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[–] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Katie Wilson's admin is such a fucking disappointment. Ran on a very progressive agenda focusing on tackling the housing crisis only to underdeliver on all fronts and backslide to even worse policy than our previous (also quite terrible) mayor.

Aside from this whole debacle, next year the police department is getting a record budget increase while housing and healthcare are getting slashed. SPD was actually accidentally overpaid 13 million dollars for "retroactive raises" this year and there doesn't seem to be much done about it except for politely asking for it back. The (also quite terrible) city council passed an emergency $300,000 of aid for the influx of trans refugees over the summer and the executive has spent exactly $0 of it.

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  • [–] 9 points 21 hours ago

    It's amazing how much ridiculous incompetence and corruption happens in city governments. It's the same all over the world.

    My own home town of Canberra, the capital of Australia no less, recently had the health department accidentally go a BILLIION DOLLARS over budget.

    Nobody can adequately explain how.

    Our city has half a million people in it.

    So it's like every one of us accidentally lost two grand behind the couch cushions.

    The government that did this is still in office, because the other side would be even worse, based on their own messaging.

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  • [–] 5 points 21 hours ago

    To be fair she also has to deal with an entire city of microsoft and starbucks NIMBY's who're cool with gay people but still economically right wing. Seattle voter's want to elect and forget is kinda why the problem persists in the first place; there's just not really any drive to get anything done because (an increasingly small amount of middle classes) people are generally comfortable with the way things are.

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