• @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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        They want a list because there’s a zero percent chance that they’ll successfully manipulate public opinion through social media.

        “Hello fellow capitalists! Ready for a new day of supporting free enterprise by simply caring for ourselves?” #nevergonnafuckinhappen

      • Hegar
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        You can’t put us all on the little list by definition, because then it would be the big list.

        • @Saleh@feddit.org
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          This is not about data analysis. This is about justifying oppression. And if it comes to “we have found you all to be dangerous” the conclusion is “we need to oppress you all”

        • Lemminary
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          12 months ago

          Wait, how? Because I only know about statistics and you usually want a comprehensive list to work with either partially or in bulk.

          • @LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de
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            12 months ago

            I think the point of big data is to collect enough information to extrapolate other qualities about whatever you want to know, so if everyone is on the list then you have no patterns to go off of besides “on Earth” or “in X country”.

            Side comment: if 99% of people were on the list, the the govt could just oppress everyone with a 99% accuracy rate. It’s entirely possibly they could pick a proportion drastically lower than 99%

      • Lemminary
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        92 months ago

        Ohh, I wonder what my rank is. I can get very competitive. 😈

    • @edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      Area 51 : Naruto run means they can’t catch us all :: List of people that dislike insurance companies : Knowing that gov’t jobs are gonna be cut to the bone for crypto scams and GOP pocket lining means they can’t monitor us all

  • vortic
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    1172 months ago

    So, they’re finally admitting that they’re monitoring all of us.

    • @IceFoxX@lemm.ee
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      What the fuck… Really? Holy shit and what the actual fuck. As example ever heard about Snowden? Chelsea Manning? Assange? Unbelievable wtf

        • @IceFoxX@lemm.ee
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          Facts should no longer be admitted or confirmed, which is why they are facts. It would have been different if, for example, some disinformation campaigns had been launched afterwards in an attempt to conceal the facts. So it was accepted, but attempts were made to shift the focus onto the “traitors to the country”… with success… sad that Americans who care about Americans are being hunted by Americans globally.

          They also admitted it much earlier, but without the words that actions conveyed instead.

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              It has been confirmed and proven by the facts - nothing more needs to be admitted. Apart from that… James Clapper has already been forgotten. Who made fun of it and what else was going on… Nothing more had to be admitted.

      • Amon
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        People forgot about Snowden after a month, it’s been 12 years already, let it come back to the public consciousness

  • sunglocto
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    1152 months ago

    Health Insurance companies are parasites who only exist to cause people misery in exchange for profit so… everyone?

  • @DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    932 months ago

    Imagine if government resources were spent on applying antitrust laws to stop this abusive situation that literally kills people and ruins lives instead.

  • originalucifer
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    832 months ago

    so, like most people who have ever had to attempt to use it combined with those who could only hope to afford it? thats prolly a long list.

    • Curious Canid
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      422 months ago

      I think it’s probably closer to 99%. Basically, anyone who isn’t a high-level executive in the health insurance industry.

  • @Gork@lemm.ee
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    “Do you have the faintest idea of how little that narrows this down?”

  • @WeUnite@lemm.ee
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    722 months ago

    The more people that express negative sentiment the harder it will be for them to go after people. It’s your first amendment right, use it. Don’t comply in advance.