Enjoy the tech surveillance state, my friends. Keep an eye on this. They will totally use this against minorities and leftists. This isn’t a red brown thing, it’s basic fact. Once they get comfortable dealing with right wing morons they’ll think, “hey, we can use these tactics on anyone that disagrees.” And they will. They already are in the Middle East.
It works very well for them. They have their military bases, their armaments contracts, their scary external enemy that the people back home can hate instead of them, they control the oil and the shipping routes.
They are ruling the world and getting filthy rich. Who cares if innocent poor people die? Who cares if some Afghan nobody wants to kill a few people because of it, in fact that Afghan is providing material for the empire's propaganda about how evil the enemy is.
It will be interesting (read terrifying) if they use the same extreme tactics at home.
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