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Leaked webinar reveals Flock employees teaching police how to surveil anti-Trump No Kings protestors and track their cars (cdn.imgchest.com)

submitted 1 day ago by waltersf@bookwyr.me to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In a normal and functioning democracy this would have ended in an absolute scandal, journalists would be able to stop writing about this, there'd he riots in the streets, and...

Well, this is the US, it'll just blow over in under 24 hours and even until then, nobody will care enough to give enough fucks to do something about it

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

In a normal and functioning democracy
[…]
there’d he riots in the streets

Pick one.

this is the US, it’ll just blow over in under 24 hours and even until then, nobody will care enough to give enough fucks to do something about it

Unfortunately true 😔

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Functioning democracies sometimes have riots to keep them functioning