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"Join ICE today" ad at university (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to c/justpost@lemmy.world

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I called this shit after 9/11 but everyone said I was being paranoid.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Same. The Patriot Act was a huge step in this direction.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Obama had opportunities to push things in the right direction but instead enabled (by not abolishing or by actively renewing legislation) a lot of what we’re seeing.

This is fine, the government wouldn’t ever use this in a bad way

What if the government is no longer benevolent? What if a cabal of activists takes over the executive branch?

That’ll never happen

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s actually an acronym: The USA PATRIOT Act which stands for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism”

But I like to call it The U SAP AT RIOT Act

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We "sap at riot" indeed...

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I was a rightwing edge lord kid at the time, the names for things under GWB (specifically The Patriot Act and Homeland Security) made me pause for the first time. It was a real "are we the baddies?" moment for me as I drew all the lines to dictatorships in history

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

You weren't wrong. You just were early.

IMO, people are a lot stupider and act with a lot less knowledge of the obvious outcomes of their actions than we give them credit for, and the possibility of non-obvious outcomes is often completely missing from their worldview.