Replying to an earlier post

Watch lists are so 1937. The whole point of building datacenters for that kind of thing is to not have the separation between people on watch lists and people not on watch lists.

So nobody should be ashamed by your measure. We live in a wonderful time when, instead of selecting few suspicious individuals to monitor, you can monitor everyone automatically and don’t have that risk.

It’s like lossless encoding, like FLAC, versus lossy encoding, like MP3. It’s better to have the former if your resources allow it.

Watch lists have that downside of being a Russian roulette, what if your watch lists give you a wrong impression of the society outside the watch lists? You might think you have it under control, while you don’t.

With everyone being monitored if you think you have it under control, you really do.

That just was a bit too expensive, but times they are a-changing.

That’s really nice, isn’t it?

Replying to @⁨Abyssian@lemmy.world⁩

We’re not ready for what I think is coming. Call me paranoid- but the US still hasn’t solved the Vice President issue.

Does the 12th invalidate the exact wording of the 22nd? Because it’s entirely possible orange man will just do a Putin and have himself run as Vice President in 2028 with someone like Vance(Medvedev) as his puppet, who can then suddenly resign/die and Trump gets 3rd/4th/forever terms due to the 22nd only saying ‘elected to the office’ not “hold the office”.

Replying to @⁨ms_lane@lemmy.world⁩

I think it will be sooner than that. I see that executive order about birthright citizenship and the DoJs new theory on revoking naturalized citizenship as preparing for the midterms.

If the Dems take majority in a big way he can quietly write an illegal but official looking decree that a lot of them are no longer US Citizens and send large groups of ICE to abduct whoever he’s now calling an illegal immigrant in a surprise raid.

The only way for Congress to fight that would be voting to remove him or take military control from him… and I don’t see the suddenly Republican majority doing that.

The country wakes up and realizes we need to do something about it, and the New Congress supports Trump in enacting the Insurrection Act and calling on the US military to put down any mobs of crazy brainwashed libral terrorists.

The President, most of Congress, and most of the Supreme Court all tell the military it’s the right thing to do and defending the Constitution from extreme far left terrorism.