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If it can happen to anyone it can happen to everyone.
If the government is keeping a secret list of citizens, then they can make up whatever reason they need to add whoever they need to add to the list.
Look up the history of all the people that ended up labeled as communists during the McCarthy years, regardless of whether they were actually communists. Or, actually, don't look up that list bc you'll probably get auto populated to this list.
But seriously, alongside their secret Palantir database that we also don't need to worry about, the government is keeping a list of citizens who they can accuse of belonging to a political organization that doesn't even exist.
It's almost like somebody that hates America (dare I say somebody who is anti-American?) is creating policies that replicate some of America's most dark and shameful history in order to troll and fuck with us.
It's like they're relying on most Americans to not know their own history, and be too dumb or naive to realize what they're actually doing. And on the off chance Americans ever do wake the fuck up and realize what's going on, they'll be too scared to actually speak out against it bc they don't want to wind up on the list.
Exactly this.
"Are you now, or have you ever been..."