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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.649s | source
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whatshisface ◴[29 Mar 25 19:12 UTC] No.43517781[source]▶
One of the important things to watch for is the linkup of the papers please people with the internet scanners. Right now they seem to be limited to seizing your personal effects, but that is a matter of coordination between departments of the government. If there are laws against it, they are adjacent to other laws which were ignored even in previous years. Once that occurs the use of professional use devices will not make the crossing safe.
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FredPret ◴[29 Mar 25 19:31 UTC] No.43517958[source]▶
Sounds like a social credit score derived from your entire online identity.

I hope that picture of reality stays in Black Mirror.

It would represent a huge decline in personal liberty in the West so I’m betting it will be so unpopular as to be impossible, especially as older voters are replaced by digital natives who are aware of the problem.

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thrance ◴[29 Mar 25 19:55 UTC] No.43518178[source]▶
Everything can be made popular through the right wing propaganda pipeline, given enough times. Republicans are now happy to see medicaid and medicare taken away, tariffs imposed on everything they buy...
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1. tdeck ◴[29 Mar 25 20:30 UTC] No.43518461[source]▶
Indeed, in 5 years we'll have centrist "thought leaders" telling us that maybe we should give up on women's suffrage because it's a losing issue.
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2. collingreen ◴[30 Mar 25 01:22 UTC] No.43520348[source]▶
Only 5 years? Women voting seems like an easy segue from "DEI policy" or from "politics are so ugly now we need to protect the women from it".

I won't be surprised if we see some calls to have voting _by household_ come back, potentially under the (nonsense) guise of fighting rigged elections.