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It seems that you’re implying that allowing intelligence agencies unlimited discretion in spying on their own populations is necessary in order to “win” against hostile foreign powers. This seems like a fairly extraordinary claim that you haven’t backed with either evidence or logic.
I never said unlimited. Limited would be fine, enough to even the field.
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> Whereas China/Russia has people tracking dissidents etc. If you think the USA doesn't track dissidents you've been walking around with your eyes and ears shut.
Comparing what the US does to citizens to what Russia/China do is laughable and childish.
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Do you believe it is reasonable to draw a distinction between dissident and criminal ?
In many aspects yes but you also don’t want surprises. Most members of those groups haven’t been caught doing criminal activity; does that mean you ignore them because they haven’t struck. If you hear rumblings about a heist it makes sense to monitor the conspirators even if they have not yet done the heist.
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> Whereas China/Russia has people tracking dissidents etc. If you think the USA doesn't track dissidents you've been walking around with your eyes and ears shut.
Comparing what the US does to citizens to what Russia/China do is laughable and childish.
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Lol who holds them responsible? Not civilians, I can assure you. They’re just more nimble because they’re top-down leadership. Not as good at expressing the people’s will, but more nimble at implementing autocratic decisions.
Wait, "expressing the people’s will"? Who in this conversation does anything like that? Certainly not USA. We didn't vote for spending three-quarters-billion-dollars-a-year on a military that hasn't accomplished anything in over five decades. Neither did we vote to spend the untold hundreds of billions we spend "in the black budget" on the even less effective unsupervised services. The last four presidents have run f…
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