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Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by bad_haircut72 »

ciupicri wrote: post #398
neilv wrote: post #287

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That questionable-sounding stunt by the media outlet wasn't comparable: Google/Alphabet knows much more about individuals than addresses, salary, and political donations. Google/Alphabet knows quite a lot about your sentiments, what information you've seen, your relationships, who can get to you, who you can get to, your hopes and fears, your economic situation, your health conditions, assorted kompromat, your moveme…

OG = Original Gangster?

Yes but its a slang term that just means original/old-school now (unless you're an actual criminal maybe).

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Post by direwolf20 »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #375
lemoncookiechip wrote: post #280

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It's not even that big of a leap. We've seen a off-duty ICE agent drunk driving his child, getting stopped by the cops, implied threats to one of the officers for being black with payback, spent the whole time saying "come on man" using his position as a federal officer as a way to get out of trouble, and ends to the point that I wanted to make, complained about his and I quote "bitch ex-wife" for divorcing him. What…

> What is stopping this lowlife Same as with all other crime, we hope it's the law that stops him. We hope that more policemen want to be good men than bad. The illusion of safety is based on the honor system. Society doesn't work without that.

Does it actually work like we hope it does?

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by direwolf20 »

tombert wrote: post #264
simonw wrote: post #2

Any time I see people say "I don't see why I should care about my privacy, I've got nothing to hide" I think about how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power. The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases. This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agen…

> This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all. Apparently any time they do anything horrifying, they will just declare that victim as a "terrorist" or something, and their sycophantic supporters will happily agree. What I find amusing is that when the Snowden leaks happened and I would discuss it, when I said something like…

How do we know whether they're people or bots?

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by nailer »

saubeidl wrote: post #317
nailer wrote: post #304

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There’s probably a lot of people that have say mainstream left (eg Obama and Sanders statements around 2010), centrist and conservative views on illegal immigration and support enforcing the law. What you see as something bad happening is something very normal made more difficult by unhelpful state governments and vigilante groups.

Armed goons terrorizing cities, dragging people out to brutalize and murder them is not "something very normal". It's what the brown shirts did.

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Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by direwolf20 »

RickJWagner wrote: post #230
steve1977 wrote: post #50

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Also always keep in mind that what is legal today might be illegal tomorrow. This includes things like your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and much more. You don't know today on which side of legality you will be in 10 years, even if your intentions are harmless.

Don’t forget about social media posts. In the UK, people are being jailed for those today . Imagine if they used your past post history against you.

Which posts are people being jailed for?

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Post by pandaman »

tombert wrote: post #448
jayGlow wrote: post #438

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they are arresting and deporting people in Texas I'm under the assumption that they can perform more than one task at a time. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-houston-arrests-more-3...

Yeah, true, they're just murdering civilians in the blue states.

Can't talk for all Red states, but in Austin, TX the city police is arresting even people who try to interfere with traffic, even more so people who interfere with federal agents so there is a little chance someone reads reddit, figures there is nothing going to happen if he or she lays hands on a fed and get lit. Now, I've seen quite a few of videos from Minneapolis and there were literally 0 MPD officers in any of those. I wonder where is the police in the blue states, definitely not on the streets where riots are going on.

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Post by [deleted] »

xzjis wrote: post #432
andy99 wrote: post #73

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> less coverage or discussion than a new version of jQuery Pretty sure this is a feature not a bug. Most people aren’t here for political topics.

German pastor Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—an…

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Post by rlt »

cauch wrote: post #407
libpcap wrote: post #308

Immigration laws, like any other laws, need to be enforced, right?

A lot of people who support the current US government do not want the laws to be enforced, they just want to see people who look brown or foreigners to be deported, regardless of if they are in the US legally or illegally. The immigration laws are saying that we should stop illegal immigration, but respect the legal immigration. And because of that, it means that each case should be carefully treated to discover if t…

Where are you getting the idea that 10 innocents are being deported for every 1 illegal? Or that the "majority" of people supporting the crackdown would support that?

The information I can find suggests only a handful of cases, maybe a dozen, out of 600,000 or so.

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Post by cmorgan31 »

Dig1t wrote: post #437
throw0101c wrote: post #336

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> Every single one of the tens of millions of people who have illegally immigrated to the United States over the past few decades is a criminal who can be legally deported. There are an estimated 100K illegal immigrants in Minnesota,[1] and about 2M in Texas.[2] With 900K in Florida, 350K in Georgia, 325K in North Carolina, etc . [3] Why doesn't ICE concentrate on fishing where the fish are… but of course that would…

Great question, most Trump supporters are extremely unhappy he’s not doing the mass deportations he promised and instead just doing tiny stunts in Minnesota. Basically neither the right nor left are happy with this admin.

Considering the AG demanded the voter rolls for MN to remove ICE it becomes obvious what game is being played. It’s a shame the USA is a terrible place.
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