If a private company does it, they can "sell" the data to the government and all the government needs to see it is pay.

If the government has the data, then there is laws and regulations about how they use it.

Like most things trump does, the problem already existed, most people were just ignorant until someone as stupid as trump tried to trick them.

That's why we keep seeing people acting shocked that trump is doing what's been done for decades. The problem is they tend to act like trump and refuse to accept that they realized late. But at least they're finally starting to notice

Lol... "the capitalist oligarchy"?

Is the GOP. Trump is the shitty, dilapidated face of the GOP, so people say Trump sometimes.

Oversimplification of the problems we face is a mistake. You can't blame the economic system for corruption when corruption can take place so easily in virtually any system.

10 years later their tools are unfathomably better.

There is no single database for all of this information (but thanks to Palantir there will be for all of this and more), so that is definitely new.

The tip of the authoritarian easy button iceberg:

•The Central Intelligence Agency has been granted increased access to domestic law enforcement databases, further blurring the line between foreign intelligence and domestic policing.

•The so-called Department of Government Efficiency got direct access to Treasury Department payment systems, including Social Security numbers, names, and birthdays, according to a whistleblower.

•Immigration and Customs Enforcement got access to Medicaid recipients’ data and banking information.

•The Transportation Security Administration is now sharing biometric passenger info with immigration enforcement, turning every airport check-in into a potential trap.

Yeah seriously, where's all those friggin "Molon Labe" kids now? "2nd protects the 1st"? "Tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty"? "No step on snek"? "Don't agree with you but will fight to the death for your right to say it"? "What did you just say to me you little bitch I'm a navy seal with over 99 confirmed kills"? (Lol)

Well here it is. The gubbmint wants to monitor your thoughts with the help of hidden microphones everywhere, hacking your phone, and probably space lasers. They want to biometric scan you and your kids just to allow access to electronic devices. They're building databases and literally rounding people up they don't like and putting them in concentration camps, even right here on home soil, no less! They're murdering U.S citzens right here in our cities.

I thought we'd at least be allies with these types, with some general disagreements on the finer points, but these big tough sheepdoggy guys that seemingly adored the Constitution and AR-15s that were seemingly EVERYWHERE, are suddenly all disappeared, or getting fantastic glutes from all that goose stepping.

Bunch'a pathetic mall ninjas. It's up to us to be training and looking after each other if we want any chance of brighter days ahead.

i will raise your bet to one donut and coffee, i say less-flagrantly abuse but pretend they have stopped, only to have expanded the entire time. also a reminder to breathe you need that to live

1958. or did you want a different one?

It's more bigly than YUGE.

Put one next to nine that reads "Better a pig than a fascist"

Not sure how much legality matters anymore, "normalize" or "desensitize" might be better words here. Ugh. I hate that's an actual sentence I just typed. And to think there are certainly alternate timelines unimaginably worse than this. My heart breaks for alternate me. 😑

Marketing too... You look at the history of psychology and marketing and how it was bad with cable tv and magazines and politics as well in that era. But now we have our entire lives tracked and psychological manipulation working on us basically constantly.

The human story isn't a genuine one anymore, the path of humanity is created artificially. Our own lives probably aren't the natural lives we were meant to have. We are losing genuine humanity.

...and this is what we are supposed to be willing to die to defend.

Have you been to the DMV, or Department of Human Services?

They do not talk to eachother. At all. Your personal documents you carry on you are the database entry.

By dissident, do you mean anyone who commits a thought crime?

TCB?

Regular Americans don't understand.

And people always talk about privacy issues being about law and legality. But the darker issue is the info being used for manipulation.

Dystopia has been here, but everyone is ignorant. That's sounds mean but it's true. Like if you detox from all the privilege and the entertainment people use to escape reality, then you start to see how far we have gone into the dark dystopic side of humanity. It's already to the point it's too late.

My fucking thought. Many states in Germany are fucking stupid and are contracting Palantir for police work. And for some illegal reasons they have access to the digital medical records of all citizen who did not opt-out.

We had the American Civil War in the bag, then the traitorous coward Andrew Johnson let the slaver class keep their wealth and positions in society when they should have been hanged.

Glass half full, I've heard rumors that if we get sent to Shartlesville they might let us take day trips to the Blue Bargain Barn for good behavior...

What makes you think he doesn't?