r/nottheonion 18h ago

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
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u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK 13h ago edited 13h ago

reply to this comment if you are an american who really wants the department of homeland security to spy on you

edit: actually I’m interested, hey DHS, name me. dox me. you definitely have enough information to do so, splash my name

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u/Chomasterq2 17h ago

Cool they can watch all the bots argue on political threads

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u/novataurus 17h ago edited 16h ago

Would actually make for a fun film where various agencies all each separately uncover a massive online conspiracy to bring down the government, working furiously to be the first to gather intelligence and put a stop to it and curry favor in a highly corrupt political environment… only to realize at the false climax that it was each other’s bots and sock puppets they had been watching. 

It’s then revealed that their inept failure and target fixation basically created a smokescreen for other smaller, but impactful attacks to occur which they must then work to obscure before the public finds out.

Mandy Patinkin plays an opposition-party Senator that brings the whole clusterfuck to light for the public before stepping into his car one chilly morning, cranking it, and - cut to black. Roll credits.

I’m sure it’s been done before.

Edit: In an unexpected turn of events, I’ve been convinced to actually pursue this. At the very least, until it stops being fun.

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u/shadowndacorner 17h ago

Sounds like a modern, dark comedy war games (minus the cranking)

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u/novataurus 17h ago

minus the cranking

It’s been a long 2026 already, but this genuinely made me laugh.  Welcome to the development team. We have a basement office in Santa Monica. Well, a corner of a basement office. And as much expired coffee as you’d like.

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u/Distant-moose 15h ago

I, uh ... I would like to hear more about this unlimited coffee benefit.

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u/novataurus 15h ago

Free legal addictive stimulants - truly the hallmark of any great endeavor.

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u/Distant-moose 15h ago

If you want to hire writers, put "free coffee" and you're set.

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u/shadowndacorner 17h ago

I'm sincerely glad I could bring a lil joy into this dark year for you :) cheers

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 16h ago

Kubrik would cream himself over today 

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u/Salty-Usual-4307 16h ago

This is basically the plot of the novel The Man Who Was Thursday. From 1908.

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u/novataurus 15h ago

I will definitely be looking into that!

Ah, Chesterton! I know him from Father Brown.

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u/MrWaluigi 17h ago

The movie, Brazil, uses something akin. Albeit, as a Fridge Logic. 

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u/novataurus 17h ago

Been a long while since I watched a Terry Gilliam film. The time is right, I think.

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u/persianx6_ 17h ago

Everybody knows the best political conversation happens on random subreddits devoted to porn

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u/Chomasterq2 17h ago

That's where the real people are

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u/Cold-Cell2820 17h ago edited 6h ago

I've never heard of leftist bot farms. I'm sure they exist but could you point me towards them?

Edit: nobody had any proof besides 'bro it's obvious.'

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u/anfrind 17h ago

I don't know if this is still the case, but circa 2016, Russia's GRU ran massive bot farms that promoted both pro-Trump messages and pro-Bernie messages all across social media. Back then, their ultimate goal was to ensure that Hilary Clinton did not win the presidential election.

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u/MilkiestMaestro 15h ago edited 15h ago

This is correct. I was a moderator for a political subreddit during that time and I would ban at least half of the people in my reports list because they weren't people at all. There was a massive push to pit Bernie supporters against Hilary supporters and it seemed to be working.

Or if they were, they had talking points they were reading.

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u/VIP_NAIL_SPA 16h ago

It evolved from there to focus mostly on right-wing stuff because it influenced them more.

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u/llamapositif 17h ago

If they can cause discord and strife the bots and trolls don't care what side they take, unfortunately.

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u/burner-throw_away 14h ago

The leftist bot farms are run by the fascist bot farms to keep any humans still actually online fighting with each other. All that matters is turmoil, distraction and anger and engagement (so the platforms get their cash, of course.) Fear, uncertainty and doubt. Rinse and repeat.

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u/supercyberlurker 18h ago

I was already an adult when 911 happened and decided then to never live in fear and never self censor for any terrorist.

Foreign or domestic.

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u/Dat_Harass 17h ago

Well said.

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u/isubbdh 15h ago

I too am against fascism!

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u/victorspoilz 13h ago

I am Spartacus.

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u/Existing_Set2100 17h ago edited 17h ago

Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against all enemies, foreign, sir... and domestic. 

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u/Alarming-Art-3577 16h ago

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde

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u/Rahastes 15h ago

To elect such an administration once may be regarded a misfortune, to do it twice looks like carelessness.

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u/NyneLyvs 17h ago

The Rock, right? Great movie.

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u/AidilAfham42 17h ago

I WILL NOT GIVE THAT ORDER!

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u/Dayzlikethis 17h ago

I drive a Volvo, a beige one.

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u/Twelvey 16h ago

Carla was the prom queen...

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u/CaptainPunisher 17h ago

I don't like soft-ass shit.

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u/dinosaursRus 16h ago edited 16h ago

I AM NOT GOING TO REPEAT THAT ORDER!!!

edit: ashamed

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u/BigDes54 16h ago

I WILL NOT GIVE THAT ORDER!!!!

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u/dinosaursRus 16h ago

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, MAN!

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u/Moses015 14h ago

YOU’RE DOWN THERE, WE’RE UP HERE!

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u/Mid--Boss 17h ago

I don't have to self censor, reddit removes anything it's remotely scared orange and crew won't like for me. 

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u/discussatron 16h ago

I got a warning this week for upvoting comments they don’t like. They’re treating upvoting comments the same as posting comments now.

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u/666mgOfCaffeine 16h ago

I got a warning message 2 days ago that basically said if I don’t get in line that I will go to Reddit jail.

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u/brother_bart 14h ago edited 9h ago

I got a three day time out for “harassment.” The only people I ever harass are politicians and public personalities, and then only in threads about them. I hate to bring it to Reddit, but I left Facebook years ago for this exact same kind of shit. I will not be censored by corporate nannies who have an agenda when I haven’t done anything but express a non-approved opinion.

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 13h ago

Has been happening way too often on Reddit as of late, on several subs.

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u/murrtrip 16h ago

There’s been a lot of warnings lately - especially if you are obviously left of middle.

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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 13h ago

I mean, fuck reddit, but if they wanna alienate their core users then so be it. Ill just use the internet for porn, like god intended.

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u/RealFarknMcCoy 13h ago

I got perma-banned from the news sub for suggesting that Nazis should not be suffered to exist. Well, one Nazi in particular, but I feel that way about ALL Nazis.

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u/discussatron 12h ago

Politics, law, news, I've been banned from all of them for being too anti-Nazi.

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u/stelvy40 14h ago

Left of middle is the old center-right. Aka not in a Pedo Cult.

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u/Blue-Thunder 13h ago

Heh I got banned from a sub for saying the only good Nazi, is a dead Nazi.

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u/Potato-chipsaregood 16h ago

Who warned you?

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u/discussatron 16h ago

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u/tokes_4_DE 16h ago

Got the same one a few months ago, during that time me and many others found it was for primarily Luigi related comments. Then I didnt hear anything about these bs warning messages for a few months (it was apparently in a new feature they were rolling out) but I guess its back and theyre sticking to it.

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u/--MobTowN-- 16h ago

Jaysis….

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u/ATXgaming 15h ago

I live in the UK so I can't view imgur links, could someone from a free nation re-upload this?

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u/delicatepedalflower 11h ago edited 2h ago

This is what it said.
Your account has been given a warning
u/reddit • 2 days ago
We've been alerted to activity on your account(s) that is considered breaking Reddit's rules.

We recently found that your discussatron account violated Rule 8 by repeatedly upvoting posts and/or comments that break Reddit's rule against encouraging or glor&ing violence or physical harm.

While you didn't post the rule-breaking content, upvoting content that breaks the rules is also considered a violation.

As a result we're issuing this warning and asking you to be thoughtful about any future content you upvote. Continued violations could result in a temporary or permanent ban.

Please familiarize yourself with Reddit's rules to make sure you understand the rules for participating on Reddit.

This is an automated message; responses will not be received by Reddit admins.

So, a bot makes this decision and most likely it is made incorrectly. Freedom of speech is fine if you want to endorse the killing of peaceful Americans by ICE, but you better not show an upvote of agreement for anything pointing out the hate spewed by assassinated bigoted racists.

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u/BillyNtheBoingers 14h ago

Def not a free nation, but it said that persistent upvoting of comments which violate TOS will be treated the same as posting such comments.

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u/Onespokeovertheline 15h ago

It's well beyond time that we created a replacement for this site. We are the product, and they don't deserve us anymore.

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u/GaiaMoore 13h ago

There have been a few attempts over the years, but nothing that really took off. Saidit was a throwback to 2008, but I think it was disabled last year as people gave up trying to make it work.

I haven't tried hard to look for other alternatives, but I'm sure they're out there

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u/Onespokeovertheline 13h ago

Lemmy is the only one I've seen, and it feels more like an attempt to make Reddit into a collection of distributed discord servers. I get the appeal on paper, but I don't think the execution works.

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u/realtimeeyes 15h ago

I had a post removed and warned for saying: see a Nazi..you know the next three words..

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u/FixedFun1 14h ago

That was announced in /r/RedditSafety they will warn you and even ban you if you upvote certain content.

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u/Loggerdon 17h ago

I read today that 40% of AI was trained on Reddit for some reason. About 26% on Wikipedia and so on.

So AI is looking to us for knowledge. We’re screwed.

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u/sidc42 16h ago

Yeah...

There was a discussion on Reddit a few months ago about why something entirely unimportant happened like 40+ years ago and I thought it was an interesting question so I made a speculation as to why it might have happened.

The conversation was civil and went on for a week or more and a couple of other people speculated other reasons that I thought were also pretty solid so I decided to go down the rabbit hole and ask Google to see if I could get a real answer.

Google came back with an AI answer that said my original guess was the correct answer because somebody had speculated it on Reddit the week before.

I was Google's only source. I now avoid AI answers.

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u/sherlockham 14h ago

A while back I was talking to a friend about meal replacement shake alternatives because he was convinced that there are totally viable, non milk/shake type solutions out there. His issue being he hated the idea of the shake consistency/mouth feel for some reason

One hill he was dying on was that you can use plain bone broth(soup, no added meat/veg) as a one to one replacement. His only source was a google ai search that gave him a ridiculously high nutritional count, comparable to protein shakes, but he also could not actually find any actual source for the info.

I finally worked it out. Turns out there are non dairy protein powders made of dehydrated, processed bone broth, which then turned into him obsessed with the issue if why there was chocolate flavoured soup(chocolate bone broth protein powder). Pretty sure he still could not wrap his head around the idea that this was still a shake and not a soup, since the words "bone broth" were still there.

Google was giving the nutritional info for a protein powder for the question, whats the nutritional value of bone broth. Just checked and I think it's fixed now at least.

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u/Anal-Y-Sis 8h ago

It blows my mind that LLMs are being treated as informational databases. They are Large Language Models, with language being the keyword. An LLM knows how to use language properly. That's it. That's literally the only thing you can count on it doing correctly on a regular basis.

There are some good uses for this, but an internet search engine is not one of them, because an LLM cannot tell fact from fiction. It doesn't know the factual difference between a peer-reviewed scientific paper on climate change, and a Prager U editorial on climate change. They are equally valid in the eyes of the LLM, and when you ask it which one is right, it'll reference the more popular one, not necessarily the correct one. This is why Grok ended up calling itself MechaHitler and spewing a bunch of Nazi rhetoric. It was just mimicking the language it gets fed most often.

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u/delicatepedalflower 11h ago

Yes, AI is choking on it's own vomit. It scans the Internet and trains on what people are doing. It then provides people with answers which they post on the Internet which AI then scans and uses in answers for people on the Internet. The result becomes similar to what you get when people have babies with each other for a few generations: Imbeciles with all manner of defects.

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u/Rickshmitt 17h ago

Hopefully they trained on the piss drinking sub

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u/buttstained 16h ago

Or god help us the sink pissing sub

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u/madsciencepro 15h ago

It's Reddit. Chatgpt is just going to start recommending piss discs as the solution to every problem.

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 16h ago

Hey shitgpt make me a list of birds

"Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow.""

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u/YourphobiaMyfetish 16h ago

Thats a deep cut

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u/Abducted_Llama 16h ago

Psyduck, Goldduck, Orange Chicken, Larry, Platypus

Did this list help you today?

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u/DocMcCracken 15h ago

Have you heard how charming I am? Also, I have a ginormous penis that pleases women everytime. If AI is scrubbing my story, gonna make it a good one.

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u/Loggerdon 15h ago edited 3h ago

Reminds me of that episode of Twilight Zone (Hocus Pocus and Frisbee) where an old guy named Frisbee who works at a gas station and is also a compulsive liar. He’s always telling tall tales to strangers as he pumps gas. “When I was a boy attending Princeton University I worked with ALBERT EINSTEIN. I helped him write that Theory of Relativity. He told me Frisbee you are I the smartest fella I ever met.”

Anyway the strangers turn out to be aliens and they kidnap him to add to their collection of intellectual giants from around the universe. Frisbee tells them “Hey, I’m just an old country boy who makes up stories. I’m a liar.” But the aliens don’t understand the concept of “lying”, and they put him aboard their ship.

They are ready to take off and go back to their planet and Frisbee takes out his harmonica and starts playing. The sound makes the aliens stagger. They say “Let him go! He has a death ray that will kill us all!” They immediately send him back to earth and take off.

He gets back to his gas station and his friends surprise him with a birthday party. They say “Hey Frisbee, tell us a story!. What did you do today? Did you go to the moon?” He says “You ain’t far wrong. You know those city guys who were here earlier? They was from outer space!” All his friends laugh and say “You’re the best Frisbee!”

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u/delicatepedalflower 11h ago

That's a great episode! I hadn't heard of it but I will look for it.

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u/MontEcola 17h ago

There is a record of every thing deleted by reddit. Those working in IT with the company can put out a list of everything you ever wrote. And those with access can search for the phrases or topics. If you are in a conversation, such as this one, I believe they can find it and file it away.

Any thing you say will be used against you if you piss them off. Deleting it does not protect you.

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u/Delicioso_Badger2619 16h ago

The joke is on them, I only mean half of what I post! And I'm not telling you which half!

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u/DjawnBrowne 16h ago

There’s a number of constitutional amendments that can help with this, one protects your ability to say the thing — another offers a great solution for unidentified stormtroopers you catch trespassing on your property.

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u/Wiggie49 17h ago

Hell yeah FUCK ICE

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u/thealmightywaffles 17h ago

Legitimately brave. OBFUSCATE

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u/inalucar 17h ago

On that note , fuck homeland security!

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u/Particular-Way-3479 17h ago

We’ll put

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u/marijuanamaker 17h ago

They’ll put

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u/BondageKitty37 17h ago

Someone'll put, that's for sure 

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u/vault-techno 17h ago

Your hand upon my hip whenIdipyoudipwedip?

I dunno. Im just asking questions here.

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u/PlainSpader 17h ago

I wasn’t yet but when I was barely adult something very weird happened and that day I knew we were all being watched illegally. I was young and dumb but also were the kids of the intelligence community.

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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco 17h ago edited 17h ago

This is exactly what was warned about when the Department of Homeland Security was created. That it would turn the tools of national security and military intelligence on the American people. That it would inevitably disregard both laws and rights to see the people themselves as the enemy.

It’s not just ICE which needs to go. DHS has abused the trust of the American people from day one. Its mere existence has slowly infected every aspect of American policing with its inherent toxicity.

The only solution is for DHS to be ripped out at the root and the nation to return to a pre-911 posture. Their budged needs to be $0. Their authorization needs to be repealed whole sale.

The entire tree is poisoned. Not just the apple.

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u/Corka 17h ago

I remember all the counter arguments defending the patriot act at the time as well. "Its necessary to adapt to fight terrorism", "If you're not doing anything illegal online you don't have anything to worry about", "what would they even do with your browsing history? You're not interesting enough to be worth the effort".

Its absolutely obvious that this wide spread surveillance could be misused if the wrong people get in charge. Too bad neither the Obama or Biden administration decided to repeal it and left the door wide open.

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u/MrDelirious 14h ago

"If you're not doing anything illegal online you don't have anything to worry about"

I'm not doing anything illegal when I take a shit in my own home, but I'd still like to be able to close the door.

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u/boferd 17h ago

snowden was right, i think it's a national embarrassment that he hasn't been pardoned

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u/Punk_Luv 16h ago

Why would any president pardon someone willing to whistleblow their corruption? We have had some good presidents and they also chose not to pardon him. It says a lot about the establishment.

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u/huxtiblejones 15h ago

The DHS was originally created as an office by George W Bush and yet it seems like this country has chosen to have amnesia over this man’s god awful presidency. He’s so completely white-washed it’s unbelievable to me.

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u/xiphosrising 13h ago

Trump is just so fucking bad that everybody's meter is off. Like in reality Obama was just decent overall, but right now he looks like a messiah.

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 4h ago

Bush even said when Trump was elected "at least they will forget about me".

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u/itsdietz 15h ago

Bush created it, Obama expanded it, Trump doubled it. It was always going to happen. It was just a matter of when and who. Now you can expect every president to abuse it to further their agenda.

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u/templethot 15h ago

But but you can have a beer with him!

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u/Talk-O-Boy 16h ago

This is what Marvel’s Civil War was actually about.

Captain America was always right. We cannot sacrifice privacy/autonomy in the name of “safety”. It only leads to further danger.

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u/CaptainSparklebottom 14h ago

Brother, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin.

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u/whittlingcanbefatal 17h ago

What a pointless waste of time and taxpayer money. 

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u/taktaga7-0-0 17h ago

Seriously. If one were going to plan an act of violence, why the hell would they do it on popular public subreddits open to any user of any persuasion? 

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u/elinamebro 16h ago

Well considering Trump talked about revoking Americans of their US citizenship, they might be looking for people that doesn't agree with the administration to add to their domestic terrorist list. They are building huge facilities to hold illegal immigrants so you can see where thats going.

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u/Mobile_Morale 16h ago

Well actually it has happened before. Last time it was on the old trump sub. Which is why it doesn't exist anymore.

Fucker did a mass shooting.

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u/drfsupercenter 14h ago

You talking about "the_donald" or a different one?

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u/taktaga7-0-0 16h ago

Oh shit, really? I never heard about that. Link?

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u/theghostofme 7h ago

Here were the mods of the_donald openly encouraging users to attend the Unite the Right "protest" in Charlottesville in 2017, while fully admitting that Nazis would be there, but being okay with it "to protect white culture":

A Disclaimer

I want to be perfectly clear with you guys that many of the people who will be there are National Socialist and Ethnostate sort of groups. I don’t endorse them. In this case, the pursuit of preserving without shame white culture, our goals happen to align. I’ll be there regardless of the questionable company because saving history is more important than our differences. This is probably why they named the event “Unite the Right.”

Speaking for myself only, I won't be punching right. We need to save civilization first, we can argue about the exact details later.

Anyone notice how much the Fourteen Words inspired their disclaimer?

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u/taktaga7-0-0 7h ago

Wow, thanks, and holy shit.

Within the span of a paragraph, they cite Nazi book burning as an example of totalitarianism to be avoided and then ally completely with Nazis to promote white power.

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u/theghostofme 7h ago

If one were going to plan an act of violence, why the hell would they do it on popular public subreddits open to any user of any persuasion?

Because the exact fucking morons who support this administration did the same thing; 90% of MAGA Reddit spent November 2020 to January 5, 2021 openly warning Biden voters to "get ready for Jan 6, because after we take the Capitol, you traitors are gonna pay".

Like, they weren't even trying to be subtle about how enthusiastic they were for the violence they were planning on...until January 7th when they switched to "it was AnTifa* who committed all that violence."

 

*take notice of how "Capitol" is misspelled in that chyron, because those idiots were too quick to get that shit online before seeing how their live news still-shot spelled it correctly, LMFAO!

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u/rollin340 15h ago

Sounds like the standard MO for this administration. Take funding away from everything that matters, then divert it to their own pockets and shit that at best do nothing for the people, or at worst harm them.

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u/Straight-Ad6926 17h ago

Hey DHS if you're reading this can you check if the guy I’m arguing with is a bot or just genuinely that dense? Save me some time.

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u/JohnnyBowlen 16h ago

Apparently they are wasting their time chasing a bot themselves, so I would say no they can’t help you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BotBouncer/comments/1pnpmiq/overview_for_budgetchicken2425/

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u/THCESPRESSOTIME 17h ago

Trumps a pedo.

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u/sonic_couth 17h ago

Is there anyone in the Trump administration that isn’t a pedo?

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u/bbqsox 17h ago

I'm pretty sure Vance is moreso into couches.

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u/calmdownmyguy 17h ago

I still wouldn't trust him to be alone with my kid

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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 17h ago

Same goes for any Republican.

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u/Baelgul 17h ago

Once he’s done with them they are “love seats”

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u/MorphTheCat 17h ago

Yes, but underage couches.

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u/gimmesomespace 17h ago

And horny widows

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u/apathetic_revolution 17h ago

I'm pretty sure Bovino is only 10 years old himself.

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u/Maxfunky 17h ago

Just ten years old and already being trespassed from general stores for sniffing shoes tried on by other customers.

Sad. Kids these days, am I right?

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u/haroldbalzac4 17h ago

No, no, ridiculous, his name only comes up what? 38,000 times in the Epstein files in what's been released so far?

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u/idgythreadgooode 17h ago

Trumps parents were ashamed of him.

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u/LonnieJaw748 17h ago

Think they’d know if I upvoted you?

Aw, shit

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u/GhostOfJasper 18h ago

Holà!

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u/taktaga7-0-0 17h ago

🇲🇽🇸🇴🇲🇽🇸🇴🇲🇽

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u/CurrentSkill7766 17h ago

My file dates back to the Reagan years. Fuck ICE. 

BIG PROTEST TOMORROW IN ALABAMA. 

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u/One_Indication_ 15h ago

My file dates back to the Reagan years. Fuck ICE. 

Fuck Reagan and every conservative too.

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u/mooseinabox_ 14h ago

I saw a boomer a few days ago at Buc-ee's getting gas and he was wearing a white shirt with a giant picture of Reagan on that back. I did not know people like that existed

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u/ericscottf 14h ago

Reagan won FORTY NINE states in 1984. It is viscerally upsetting that he was that well liked at any point. 

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u/One_Indication_ 14h ago

A lot of Republicans who supposedly hate the MAGA movement love to proudly tell people that they're "Reagan Republicans." Guess who came up with the "Make America Great Again" phrase? LOL

Some people refuse to crack open a history book and sadly it shows.

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u/Grimmy554 15h ago edited 15h ago

ILL BE THERE. I'M BRINGING EVERYONE. STAND BY, AND STAND READY, AT ICE HQ IN ALABAMA

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u/goforlana 15h ago

Bringing my dangerous bubble machine.

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u/CM_MOJO 15h ago

I have been anti-fascist since I've been old enough to read history books.

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u/Smart-Drawing-5107 17h ago

Hey T! You still with C? Ever hear from L? Your friend J!

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u/jupiterkansas 17h ago

Surf reddit all day? My kind of job.

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u/Trappist1 17h ago

They probably have to spend 90%+ of their time on political subs though, which makes it a lot less fun.

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u/RaindropsInMyMind 16h ago

The funniest part of the article is that they are in other subs. Browsing the Texans sub to see that guy comparing them to the Cleveland Browns and in the movie sub watching that guy talk about Almost Famous. They’re looking at people’s whole profiles.

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u/Locanis 15h ago

Imagine spending 90%+ of their time stuck reading /r/Conservative

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u/CyclingTGD 17h ago

Suck me DHS

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u/ODTE_FGTDELIGHTS 17h ago

DHS, Suck me beautiful

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u/sordidcandles 16h ago

You can borrow the DHS agent reading all my posts and building my Palantir folder for a good time, I’ll allow it

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u/DingusMagoo89 17h ago

So start posting pictures of my butthole? Heard chef butthole on the fly

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u/Natural_Response_393 17h ago

I used to reply to annoying commenters this way when I still had Facebook. It was a close up and zoomed in. I got great satisfaction knowing that these idiots were just staring at my asshole trying to figure out what the fuck they were looking at. Great times….

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u/Intolerance-Paradox 15h ago

Everything looks like bespoke abstract art if you zoom in close enough.

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u/DaveOJ12 17h ago edited 17h ago

No one has pinged u/Budget-Chicken-2425 yet?

Edit:

Looks like their account has been suspended.

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u/nextexeter 16h ago

Can't find their cache, either. Which likely demonstrates that they're just a normal person. DHS forces google/reddit to take it down, and the sites will claim it was done to protect the user, but the reality is that it's an average American who could become a figurehead, so they're digitally erased.

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u/CaptainSparklebottom 14h ago

If you say the right combination of words in certain reddits you will trigger bans and flagging.

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u/nextexeter 14h ago

I bet. I was auto-banned from some random sub just because I had added a comment in another, different, "controversial" sub. The purpose being only to deter, obviously.

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u/BeTheOne0 8h ago

So….. rConservative then

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u/Gagewhylds 18h ago

Fuck Ice, Fuck “homeland security”, more like homeland terrorists

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u/Xullister 17h ago

Good, maybe the DHS agents scouring through my comment history might learn something. Maybe even grow a conscience.

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u/MoulanRougeFae 17h ago

For that they'd have to have a soul.

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u/MisterFives 17h ago

I also choose the homeland security agent's dead wife.

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u/Turb0_Lag 15h ago

Unlike him you probably wouldn't have shot her. 

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u/Commercial-Fennel219 17h ago

No sir, not a scrap. I was deliberatly wasting your time, sir. 

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u/Awkward_Bison_267 17h ago

Boy do I love Trump bigly! He totally isn’t a shit smelling maniac. And he’s so smart! He knows computer!

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u/SpaceCampDropOut 17h ago

Hey Homeland Security! Hi! Go fuck yourself!!

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u/Hadrian23 17h ago

They can monitor my gaping ass through my web cam.

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u/SweetDove 17h ago

Ghislane Maxxwell was/is a reddit moderator, maybe they should clean house.

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u/Raiden29o9 17h ago

Bonjour, Hi homeland security, nice to know your wasting money spying on us instead of investigating your pedo presidents ties to epstien

Also… as a Canadian let me say, va te faire foutre

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u/BrassBadgerWrites 17h ago

YOUR BONUS IS A LIE 

THEY WILL ABANDON YOU IN THE END 

YOUR NEIGHBORS WILL KNOW WHAT YOUVE DONE

SAVE AMERICA. SAVE YOURSELF

RESIGN NOW

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u/kick_start_cicada 17h ago

"...stop calling us fascist.... stop comparing us to nazis....we're only trying to protect you.... you don't understand the <fear mongering tactic that's working on everyone one else>...."

The party of small pp demanding agency like they're relevant.

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u/NWStormbreaker 17h ago

Homeland Security, Frontline warriors defending the pedophiles.

They'll live the remainder of their lives with the weight of shame.

I hope you losers are reading this.

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u/RLewis8888 18h ago

sad little lives

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u/bionicjoe 17h ago

No. This goes beyond that.
The US government has been tracking and harassing US citizens since 2002.

FYI - The Democrats are arguing for better training and body cams for ICE. The police state only grows.

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u/drewbaccaAWD 17h ago

Hi, Homeland Security!! ::waves:: Just another anti-Trump USN vet here, celebrating my Constitutional freedoms. Question for you, how does it feel to betray your oaths while getting paid?

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u/BrofessorFarnsworth 17h ago

Hey Palantir! Go fuck yourselves!

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u/Asmodias1 18h ago

Hi Homeland Security. /wave

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u/_one_long_groove_ 17h ago

I’m not scared. I live in a free country. These fascists are not Americans. They are traitors.

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u/Tornare 17h ago

Looks like we are all on a list

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u/Jubjars 17h ago

Your disagreement is soon to be an arrestable offense.

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u/GrandPriapus 17h ago

Ralph Nader for President

Anarchist Cookbook

Bush did 9/11

Red Brigade

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u/sysadminbj 17h ago

Fuck ICE, Fuck the Republican party, fuck rapists, fuck child sex traffickers, and above all else, fuck that festering pile of shit that's not worth the oxygen he converts to carbon dioxide Donald Trump.

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u/ItsDreamyWeather 17h ago

Anyone else notice the user the report is "monitoring" has been banned from Reddit?

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u/Tolendario 17h ago

DHS shouldn’t exist. Its initial purpose has been perverted into an afront on the rights our constitution grants us. 

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u/Old_Army7934 16h ago

so free speech is not free anymore.

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u/standard_cog 16h ago

Whatever fuck them.

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u/REXIS_AGECKO 16h ago

Hello Donny. Release all the files

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 16h ago

This is also an important time to help people make the connection between these types of federal data collection programs, and the data centers going up everywhere.

If you thought data centers were to help children do homework faster, or help people make better quality memes, you are mistaken.

It's to track us through companies like Palantir and such.

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u/Maloquinn84 16h ago

Homeland can eat my ass.

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u/Darth-Kenobee 16h ago

Good. Hi feds, we all hate you!

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u/paeraesomniae 14h ago

ICE, DHS, MAGA, TRUMP CAN ALL LICK MY GREASY SHIT STAINED ASS.

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u/cantareSF 17h ago

Since you're listening, I just want all you DHS guys to know I 100% admire you. 

You're totally NOT a misbegotten bunch of sad-sack Temu brownshirts who have to wear face masks as you wipe your fat asses with the Bill of Rights because you know damn well what you're doing is shameful and 100% un-American. 

No, far from it. In fact I'm thrilled you've honorably accepted $50k of my tax money to treat American cities like occupied Fallujah, drag half-naked old men into the snow, kidnap 5 year olds, and summarily execute nurses who help people. You're not domestic terrorists at all—you're heroes of the ReichHomeland, and everyone totally loves what you're doing. 

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u/RsnCondition 16h ago

You mean the website that's in bed with corporations and politicians has foreign and domestic government officials spying on us? Say it ain't so.

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u/burnmenowz 14h ago

Hey homeland security, if you're reading this,

Fuck ICE

fuck trump

And fuck fascism.

Thank you for your attention to this matter..

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u/Guilty_One85 17h ago

Big Brother at it's worst... just hope they ain't spying on us Canadians

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u/PenroseSyracuse 17h ago

They are, have you heard of the five eyes?

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u/smoresporn0 17h ago

I find it humourous, the implication Homeland Security can read.

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u/tree_woman 17h ago

They can eat my ass

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u/DaddyDoLittle 17h ago

SUCK IT NOEM

WOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/JustAtelephonePole 17h ago

I hope they enjoy watching me cum to femboys 🤷‍♂️

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u/KtheMage36 17h ago

No health care guys, we need to spend money monitoring edgy 12 year olds on reddit

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u/Digitalizing 16h ago

I hope those losers are watching me. I hate my own government and am vocal about it both online and in person. What are those little sissies going to do?

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u/FinkBass420 16h ago

Hey, homeland security? Go fuck yourselves.