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[–] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Heck no, but conflating two arguments at the same time makes them both unsolvable. I just approach one topic at a time. I'm very much anti-gov-spying. It's fourth amendment stuff.

But I think the constitution is more of a talking point than something American politicians care about these days. They like to use it to say, "Do the thing I like! But wait, stop using it to stop me from stopping the things I don't like!"

It's corruption all the way down.

[–] gila@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You put forward a couple of different points - I'm not conflating things, just hoping to skip past the constitutional one (which in my opinion is non-sequitur) to address the other. I might have boiled it down to a one-liner, but here's some light further reading/viewing which may help to scratch below the surface of why this corruption as you put is probably happening: https://youtu.be/Fhgm5b8BR0k

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Oh sorry, I didn't mean that to come off as an accusation.

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