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Today Is One of the Biggest Surveillance Votes. Will the FBI Stop Spying?

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Re: Today Is One of the Biggest Surveillance Votes. Will the FBI Stop Spying?

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Yes, removing a limitation counts as giving up power.

But they havnt given anything up. They changed their ruling. They can change it again and have that, “power” again. The power isnt the limitation. It's the ability to implement or remove a limitation. They havnt given that up.

They gave up the power to forcibly allow abortions. The "government" doesn't operate as a monolith, the executive branch now cannot universally do pro-choice related things.

Re: Today Is One of the Biggest Surveillance Votes. Will the FBI Stop Spying?

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And yet we still only have the handful of incidents from foreigners, most of which come over legally anyway. Right wingers have been fearmingering about foreigners for decades. Are they just using illegal entry now when they didn't before and waiting a really long time? You do know domestic terrorism is just as common as foreign terrorism in the US, right?

Sure, but how many of them are “I can trace my lineage to the mayflower” domestic terrorists and how many are citizens of immigrant/non-citizen parents?

Mayflower? wtf does that have to do with anything? Ohhhhh! That's code for "but are they white", isn't it?

Pathetic.

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