yeah, I've been wondering how much I should be sharing about my political opinions now... and a little concerned about my 15+ years of social media history.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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NSA Utah Datacenter has been online since May 2014 and has been sucking down the entire contents of the internet since then...
...so yeah.
Better to just embrace it and be ready for when they come for us, probably.
side note, if you are really fed up with this news cycle, you could take up a new hobby.
drones are crazy fast these days, and cheap to make, and there are SO many ways to build them now. they come with so mant different attachments, especially in the states. you could attach all kinds of crazy things to them. like nerf guns, and paintball guns and do all kinds of fun activities with lots of friends
also i hear the area around mar a lago is beautiful to vacation in, it would be great to get some birds eye view footage of that place. just for fun with a bunch of your friends
i hear also about how good drones are at stabalizing for long distance shots on video these days. you could fly them so high up you could barely see them or hear them from the ground.
some people even use them to drop small, or large packages from the air as well. just be careful they dont land on anyone important
that would be aweful......eh?
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Hmm, what was that you said about Acrostic Poems?
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100% of all of it. You have the RIGHT. Not priviliege, not favor, not permission. RIGHT.
The worst they can do is kill you. Your gonna die eventually anyway, might as well do it for a good cause.
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My solution is to VPN everything out of country. Not a single packet exits without going through a double hop VPN, with both hops being outside the Fourteen Eyes.
On top of that I run an ad/tracking blocking DNS server thatβs updated pretty frequently.
very unlikely.
If they do it'll end up being like less than 5% to make an example out of them.
if that does happen start using and supporting services like i2p and monero.
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Well, I think that it would be if not impossible, then extremely difficult to do that, as the amount of people they'd have to catch would be gigantic.
But I think it's best to be prepared for a lot of social media bans and restrictions. (Think China or Saudi Arabia)
And if you happen to partake in protests, do NOT confess to it online. This is especially important if you're doing anything illegal, but looking at what the situation is over there, I'd say that it applies to peaceful protesting as well. Take care.
Many people commenting of the difficulties in prosecuting people for anti Trump settlements. More likely they will "release" this information for the wider public(maga linch mob)
I hope my fellow Philadelphians who voted Harris with 50+% margin will protect me from the mobs π
It's not illegal to have an opinion dude. Calm down.
There was this news report about a french scientist being denied entry to USA, because they critiqued the science budget cuts. While not arrested or something, it's still telling.
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(As a German living here) I doubt it. It's bad but it's still not China-level bad - and even in China they don't arrest literally everyone. If you're a foreign national living in the US however, you should be a bit more careful.
even in China they donβt arrest literally everyone
Which reminds me:
How the fuck did CCP-Critics such Youtubers serpentza and laowhy86 survive so long in China without getting prison sentence or getting deported?
Like, they were literally making videos critical of CCP while in China but they were fine. π€
I just hope I get the same luck as they did.
The logical conclusion is that absolute suppression is not as effective as the authorities would like us to believe.
maybe they were used to find like-minded people to arrest them instead
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Honestly Lemmy is way too small to be monitored and acted upon.
So even though the question is interesting I think deleting Lemmy because of the current administration is an over reaction.
On the contrary you probably have the opportunity to freely dissent here when others on mainstream socials networks can't.
But I'm European so it's easy for me to say that this is probably safe here. You have to evaluate the risk yourself but I think no administration gives a single sh** about Lemmy.
Very unlikely. They don't have the prison cells to lock up half the population nor the manpower to identify them with how many people DOGE is firing. You're more likely to just lose your job rather than get arrested.
If they come for you, they come for me, and many many more. Don't pay personal information, you shouldn't do that anyways
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why don't you take a look at my comment history to find out how I feel about it.
this is my 231st comment. I run a script to scrub anything usually older than 24 hours.
I don't think this is something we have to worry about in the near future and I don't think it will happen under Trump. What concerns me is the way the "system" is being set up so that alternative points of view or other parties just won't have a chance to win an election or survive a lawsuit.
The groundwork is being laid so that people way more extreme than what we are seeing now can come into power and then stay in power without any way of removing them.
The current administration is setting things up where in order to "count" you have to be 1) loyal to Trump and 2) loyal to the republican party (don't want any RINOs!). Heck, you can subscribe to typically republican principals (lower taxes, lower spending, right to bear arms, strong military, etc...) but you aren't a "real" republican unless you un-waveringly support Trump.
But a true patriot is loyal to the Constitution. But now, you can't be a republican and be loyal to the constitution, you have to be loyal to Trump. And that is setting things up to go very badly.
Maybe start using tor or i2p. You can use Lemmy over tor, for sure.
There is so much content going online, and so much traffic, plus heightened security measures, that make it very hard to identify dissidents on a large scale, at least with the tech we have, without using searches and seizure of oneβs devices or other methods unrelated to the Internet itself.
In other words, very hard to impossible.