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On these max-out-surveillance votes, Dianne Feinstein poorly represents the massive tech industry presence in her state.
Pretty disappointed that my rep (Patty Murray, D-WA) did not vote on the amendment.
As am I.
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Re: Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data
#292'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' -Robert Oppenheimer we did this to ourselves. we built these tools that are now at the disposal of people with malicious intentions. in another thread about surveillance of WFH employees everyone is aghast that managers would use such tools. again: we did this to ourselves. you can shift the blame any number of times around the loop of responsibilities it's not my faul…
Your argument essentially boils down to "I'm frustrated. We need to do something! The only reason nothing changes is because of our mindset! If only we all made the same decision I made, we wouldn't have this problem!"
But this kind of egalitarian desire, well intentioned as it is, should not be mistaken for an effective mechanism. It does not take very much comparison to see the night and day difference between a low level IC employee at the DoD or a subcontractor, and a high level military chief capable of making executive decisions for a $700B/year war machine. Nor does it take that much thinking to consider that for a lot of poor folks, the military is one of the few options remaining for them to be able to afford an education, a calling, a social circle, and a sense of structure and purpose in the modern world. If you want to more insightfully analyze what enables this Leviathan to perpetuate, perhaps you should take a look at the nonlinear systemic factors involved rather than reducing things to a naive linear sum of individual actions.
Re: Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data
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> Hillary and Biden snaring the nomination ahead of Bernie show how thoroughly the establishment Democrats can school him on politics. His appeal to certain voters is great, but he still has to play the game to some degree. That is not hard when they benefit from a multiple year media blackout against Bernie. Playing the game sounds a lot like compromising on values; something which would have also led to voters losi…
All I have to add is this: If Bernie can't "compromise his values" enough to make political deals to get the nomination, then he would be completely ineffective as president -- where getting your policy enacted requires constant deal making with Congress.
I would respond by simply saying nothing is getting done already, so worst case what would the difference have been? By your argument, no difference.