Hello,
I was with my brother and his group of friends, and one of his friends was talking about various drugs. My brother told him, “Shut up, you’re going to put us on a watchlist,” and he said it in a serious tone. It felt pretty dystopian when he said that; honestly, it was a bit eerie, mostly because he’s being controlled and self-censoring without anyone there, and he seems to be aware of the freedom he’s giving up, yet he continues to act this way. I’ve talked to my brother about privacy and why it’s important many times, but he would rather live this type of controlled life and doesn’t care because “they already know everything about me anyway.” He’s in his early 20s.
Has anyone else had moments like this?
My eighty year-old parents have borrowed my car since April so they can drive for DoorDash, knowing full well if they can’t work this country will do nothing to help them and they’ll end up homeless.
Yay capitalism.
The goal is not to avoid the watch lists. The goal is to be on so many that they become useless.
Now I have a new goal in life.
Assuming this is the US, I doubt it’s that easy to land on any sort of watchlist. Unfortunately, paranoia doesn’t require any actual hard evidence.
Lol. What, you think the US government is some kind of benevolent master or something?! Our government is vile. The US is responsible for some truly evil shit. But, sure buddy, it’s hard to get on a watchlist.
Yeah, no. The US “watchlist” is our entire population, buddy. No joke.
So, you think it’s realistic that if I start talking about weed, acid, cocaine and heroin that I’m going to wind up on a watchlist for that?
At one time searching for linux was enough. https://www.eweek.com/security/linux-lands-on-nsa-watch-list/
Irrational paranoid urges might be signs of mental health issues. Does your family have any history of paranoid schizophrenia? Onset tends to happen to men in their late 20s/early 30s, but everyone is different.
Yeah, nobody’s out to get us. Surely we all want to make America great again, so nothing to worry about.
Not sure what the irrational or paranoid bit of this is about
No one gets put on a watchlist for talking about drugs with their pals in a bar.
The fear that some “other” will somehow overhear, have the power to add you to this list, actually do so, and that even such a “talked about drugs” watchlist exists that can upset your life, is the irrational and paranoid bit.
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I have a coworker at a large shipyard who’s an insane MAGA moron. He believes all women will soon be fired, and all non-white people are going to be deported.
He’s writing down people’s personal information, license plates, and such. He’s not even trying to be stealthy about it.
This one time, at band camp, we were having an election where both parties and all media were cheering on genocide, but Netanyahu wanted Trump to win, and so both parties ensured that for Israel, and all cheered the result, while I preferred putting a flute up my pussy to voting.
But fortunately that is all over, with no consequences, now.
When packaging on food specifies that it has REAL ingredients , like REAL CHEESE and REAL HONEY.
We’ve gotten so good at producing fake, artificial flavors that we need to specify when our food is real.
Also new facial scanners at airports
Also new facial scanners at airports
Yes, what the actual fuck?! Saw one in Frankfurt on a layover
Yeah, I saw these on my way to, and out of London.
In frankfurt you could at least choose to get the one gate without scanner. I read in London they habe a no-fly policy if you refuse to get scanned. I hate this timeline
I think REAL CHEESE was a trademark so they could use it, it’s FAR from real cheese, but a loophole to put that phrase on the package.
They weren’t joking with “collect it all”.
https://theintercept.com/2015/05/28/nsa-officials-privately-criticize-collect-it-all-surveillance/
Reminds me of this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-05-27
Sure have
Privacy is the not-dumb way regardless of who’s in charge. Non-negotiable when you have dipshits and terrorists and nazis at the helm.
Your brother is dumb about privacy. Hopefully he figures it out.
