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  • EV drivers hated it, some others felt it was going to depress uptake of EVs as not having to pay for petrol was a big draw to buying one.

    I guess everyone else loves it that they contribute to the roads they're using and it was bound to happen eventually because it's only fair.

  • The Epstein release was the same shit, it was all stuff that was already released. The stuff we actually want (the blackmail videos that presumably exist, anything else seized by the FBI on his island) is still secret.

  • Yeah, of course. The patriot act was already written way before 9/11, it was a wishlist and they only needed the right excuse to pass it. It's something they'd always wanted to begin with (both Republicans and Democrats), and it's politically not possible to repeal.

  • Yep, 12 years of Democrats in charge and none of them did anything to reign in this whole apparatus that could easily be abused by an autocrat. Now Trump has a turnkey surveillance state that can be turned on anyone in the country. All your internet traffic, current location, licence plate readers, face recognition, etc. It was all created to alternately catch terrorists or pedophiles, and now Trump is going to use it against anyone he doesn't like.

    And it's not like nobody was warned, there was plenty of dissent about the patriot act from experts and the people, but politicians were just like 'don't worry, it'll only be used against terrorists'. Guess what, everyone's going to be deemed a terrorist now. They're trying to charge Luigi with terrorism already (and those are state charges in a Democratic state).

  • IIRC they can compel you to unlock your phone. Or just deny you entry if you don't. It's best to make sure you travel with a 'clean' phone and PC, border patrol got ridiculous powers in the patriot act and nobody's ever rolled any of it back despite decades of abuses.

  • Yeah exactly, sick of seeing the stupidest conspiracies about starlink. If you use https, there's fuck all he can do to the stuff you send over it, except maybe block it. I'm all for not using it because he's a Nazi you shouldn't give money to, but the only tampering he did was splash a bunch of money around for ads and dirty tricks (like promising money in exchange for votes, which should definitely be illegal but the FEC decided not to look into?).