A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
  • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    10 months ago

    Nothing that cops have access to is secret, all they do is brag about every single morsel of power they have LOL.

    • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.eeEnglish
      281·
      10 months ago

      they once searched my car when i was a new driver and i was so nervous about getting rodney kinged. they were so proud when they showed me the empty liquor bottles and a couple .22lr rounds left over from ages. They wanted to charge me with something so bad. it was written across their faces and behaviour. all because of an out of state license plate.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      379·
      10 months ago

      Yep Obama did jackshit when Snowden came out under his administration and told us all that the US was spying on all Americans.

      Fuck Democrats and Republicans are fine with this unconstitutional bullshit. Especially Biden who voted for the Patriot Act and the Iraq War.

      • xenspidey@lemmy.zipEnglish
        174·
        10 months ago

        He even wrote the precursor to the Patriot act which it was based off of and bragged about it.

      • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        148·
        10 months ago

        Voted for the Patriot Act? That mother fucker wrote it. When he first wrote it during Reagan’s Presidency it was too far to the right for even Reagan.

          • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            415·
            10 months ago

            I’m betting you dont know half of what he’s done. If you did you would never consider casting a vote for him or his party that’s allowed it all to happen.

            • June@lemm.eeEnglish
              6·
              10 months ago

              I’ll vote Biden because I know at the end of his term he’ll leave office.

              I’ll take that over the uncertainty of trump who will surely be on the ballot. Not to mention, as a person whose just come out this year, I’m not confident I’d be safe under a trump presidency.

              • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                37·
                10 months ago

                Pure hyperbole. As someone that’s been out for 38 years I can confideantly say your safety isn’t dependent on who’s in the WH.

            • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              10 months ago

              What’s my alternative? Only person on the ballot will be Trump. So if I want retain my right to vote Biden will be my only choice because we got to keep Trump out and all Republicans.

              • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
                13·
                10 months ago

                So, let me get this straight.

                Given a choice between evil Pinocchio (this time with international strings!) and a violently orange water balloon filled to bursting with bull’s shit, you’d chose the wooden puppet to throw at the massive human rights abuse apparatus currently fucking everyone’s data up the ass?

                Let me know how that goes for you.

    • Kool_Newt@lemm.eeEnglish
      237·
      10 months ago

      You do understand that if we don’t get the lesser evil we get the more evil right? It’s not like if discourage voting enough we default to a communist leader.

        • Kool_Newt@lemm.eeEnglish
          81·
          10 months ago

          Ya, sometimes I comment/reply not with the goal of changing the person I’m replying to, but maybe somebody reading our conversation will think a bit before giving up the game to the fascists just because Biden isn’t a comrade.

          There are many good hearted people on Lemmy that have delusions of successul revolution and are putting vulnerable people at risk with their perfectionism.

        • Kool_Newt@lemm.eeEnglish
          172·
          10 months ago

          “…when the outcome is all the same” maybe to you, that’s the definition of privilege. I’m a trans woman, my well being is directly connected to who wins, and I’m not the only vulnerable one.