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Re: Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

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Post by LeoPanthera »

sigwinch wrote: post #294
LeoPanthera wrote: post #6

America is really now two Americas. The divide between traditional freedoms and neo-authoritarianism is getting wider. But America is so large that even the minority (just) that believes in freedom is still 167 million people. Even if only a small percentage of that number, from either side of the divide, believes in violent activism, things are going to get worse before they get better.

Trump won the election with less than 50% of the popular vote. He has never enjoyed an approval rating equal to or higher than 50%.

Verify your claims before spreading them. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024

Re: Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

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Post by chasd00 »

dylan604 wrote: post #163
chasd00 wrote: post #118

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yeah surveillance doesn't mean secure. A few weeks ago there was a solid 10-15 second run of automatic weapons fire on my street in an intersection. I do a lot of shooting and i could tell from the concussion it couldn't have been more than a couple hundred feet from my bedroom window. My neighbors turned in all their camera footage with recordings of two cars and the gunfire to a detective. When i asked them what ha…

I'm in Dallas as well, and I hear gun shots daily. New Years/4th July absolutely sound like a war zone. I found a slug next to my trash can after a 4th celebration a couple of years ago. Not a shell, the actual slug. I keep it on my desk as a reminder. My fur babies are not allowed outside on those nights.

curious to know where you are in Dallas if you don't mind. I'm in Oak Cliff in the Winnetka Heights neighborhood. This past New Years and July 4th were especially bad, people were double parked on I30 on the bridge to downtown, and the gunfire and fireworks were nonstop. DPD has basically given up, there's going to be a tragedy on day and everyone is going to be like "how could have this have happened!?".

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Post by mulmen »

unclad5968 wrote: post #95
wrs wrote: post #75

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What confuses me is that no revolution is required. All we had to do to avoid this was to vote. Voting would still (probably) work.

Who can I vote for that will stop flock cameras from being installed?

Your mayor and city council and maybe local judges and sheriff.

Re: Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

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Post by mulmen »

runarberg wrote: post #300
mywittyname wrote: post #140

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The local government officials in charge of allowing these to be installed. It also represents an opportunity for upstarts. If you want to get into local politics, this is a single issue that will unit voters and bring them in. We had a city councilperson elected on the sole issue of replacing the purple street lights. She won decisively and her entire campaign was literally signs everywhere promising to fix the purp…

Seattle voted for Katie Wilson as mayor partly because she seemed to oppose surveillance cameras. She now seems to have changed her mind is is speaking in favor of them.

According to [1] Seattle doesn’t use Flock and Wilson hasn’t taken a stand either way, even on the campaign trail.

[1]: https://www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-elect-wilson-won...

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Post by School-Cotton »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #333
School-Cotton wrote: post #166

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You're supporting the point of the person you responded to.

That’s the separation of powers at work, which is desirable. Congress has to (and can ) do it. Obama, unlike Trump, would sometimes back down when he met the edges of executive authority. That’s how it should be. I wanted Gitmo closed, but I don’t want it closed in a way that further expands the executive branch by once again nibbling at the edges of another branch’s authority.

Plenty of countries that are well-run democracies don’t have separation of powers between the legislature and the executive — the UK is one of many examples.

Separation between the executive and the judiciary is important, but separation from the legislature doesn’t really seem to be.

Even among countries that do have such a separation, the US is unique in making it so difficult for the legislature to pass anything, which IMO is the most serious flaw in its system. The permanent deadlock is what creates such a temptation for the executive to circumvent the rule of law and try to seize power wherever it can.

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Post by School-Cotton »

mothballed wrote: post #373
Forgeties79 wrote: post #333

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That’s the separation of powers at work, which is desirable. Congress has to (and can ) do it. Obama, unlike Trump, would sometimes back down when he met the edges of executive authority. That’s how it should be. I wanted Gitmo closed, but I don’t want it closed in a way that further expands the executive branch by once again nibbling at the edges of another branch’s authority.

At ~all times for a long period of time during Gitmos operation, there was at least one (revolving) prisoner that no nation on earth would take. I think that was the biggest challenge for someone who actually wanted to close gitmo, to close it. Not clear where you would put them that wouldn't be yet another prison. I guess now that the US has normalized relations with the Taliban, maybe they'll end up sending them to…

They should stand trial in a US court, and if they’re acquitted, they should be set free, like anyone else. That’s a pretty fundamental principle of the rule of law.

If they’re indeed innocent and can’t be deported because nobody will take them, then they have to be allowed to stay in the US. That’s unfortunate but not really their fault given that the US brought them into its jurisdiction against their will in the first place.

It seems transparently unfair to capture someone and then keep them forever because nobody else wants them.

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Post by handoflixue »

irl_zebra wrote: post #155
dyauspitr wrote: post #114

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Many in this administration are the lowest, least educated parts of their respective societies. They don’t have shame. You cannot shame them because this is literally their only way to make money.

If shame were a motivator for this administration or the current grifter class, neither of these things would exist to the current Armageddon-level they currently do. That is to say, completely agree with your take here. There are plenty of government-entity examples of this, but my favorite I've seen recently was a video montage of Elon saying annually, like clockwork, that sully autonomous driving would be here in…

Curious to see the link to him saying that back in 2014, didn't realize he'd been saying it for quite that long!

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Post by School-Cotton »

henryteeare wrote: post #235
School-Cotton wrote: post #166

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You're supporting the point of the person you responded to.

One vote isn't enough. Just Obama was insufficient when congress was not sufficiently aligned.

But I have no power to vote for anyone but the president, two senators and one representative.

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Post by Forgeties79 »

School-Cotton wrote: post #425
Forgeties79 wrote: post #333

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s the separation of powers at work, which is desirable. Congress has to (and can ) do it. Obama, unlike Trump, would sometimes back down when he met the edges of executive authority. That’s how it should be. I wanted Gitmo closed, but I don’t want it closed in a way that further expands the executive branch by once again nibbling at the edges of another branch’s authority.

Plenty of countries that are well-run democracies don’t have separation of powers between the legislature and the executive — the UK is one of many examples. Separation between the executive and the judiciary is important, but separation from the legislature doesn’t really seem to be. Even among countries that do have such a separation, the US is unique in making it so difficult for the legislature to pass anything,…

Historically it hasn't generally been this difficult to pass anything.

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Post by drnick1 »

s3p wrote: post #265
ndesaulniers wrote: post #221

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I took a look at the schematics for the two fuse boxes in my 2023 Chevrolet and _could not tell which/if any_ fuse was dedicated to a cellular modem. This was in regards to: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/...

Same here. I am driving a 25 Kia and have tried to little success to find that modem.

This may help:

https://www.kianiroforum.com/threads/how-to-remove-head-unit...

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