They can’t even arrest the pedophiles in government but they want to mass surveil us for everything.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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The rules have always been for us, not for them.
The police are enforcers for the elites, they don't stop crime, they extract fines from people and provide a deterrent to anyone standing up for themselves.
I know but we outnumber them a million to one so we don’t actually have to put up with this
With what organization? The left is too busy with shit like tone policing for any cohesive narrative to take root.
Turns out when your brain is filled with no-no words that effectively act as thought terminating cliches you end up being unable to effectively communicate with people you disagree with. Crazy how the far right simply does not have this problem, no? Granted they aren't really for 'discussion' or 'debate' or 'deliberation' in the same way leftists are, and their thought terminating cliches are much worse; climate change being one of the big ones.
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Yea so you quit taking badly about the pedophiles in government.
Those are not contrary, but complementary things.
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This is how the democrats lose the next election.
GJ snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Again
You're a bad person for pointing this out. /s
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Eh, it's only co-sponsored by one other person who isn't running for re-election; it's a purely NY delegation bill. Not saying there isn't the threat from age gating bills but this one is pretty much dead.
still have no idea how they will implement this, with phones that can be rooted or running something like lineageOS or others.
But in any case, I am glad I am not from the US.
The EU is pushing very similar things...
Literally Meta has been caught paying people through shell orgs all around the world to pass this kind of legislation.
with phones that can be rooted
... for now. Samsung removed the ability to unlock the bootloader in an update.
And yes, there are other options. But Google is also cracking down on the openness of Android. I certainly can't take the ability to root as a given.
How far back are they pushing that update? Is it safe to assume that Samsung phones that can't go beyond One UI 7.x.y.z are still able to have unlockable bootloaders?
Likely? I don't know the details. My old S22 which did get updates no longer has the option.
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You stole my exact comment.
How can anyone not trust that face!? I'm sure this is all very well-intentioned!
Or a parent could, I don't know, just parent their own kids instead of expecting the government to.
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And written by a Democrat. They really have become useless. First they regularly forget that they are opposition for a reason, and now they even betray their voters with the most stupid law humans can cook up.
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The app "5 calls" is free, free of ads, and free of tracking. It will provide you with the phone numbers and emails of your representatives and senators. It will also provide you scripts so that you can speak directly on each potential topic. You can also set up daily, weekly, or monthly notifications to remind you.
No script for this topic
Tell your reps that this bill doesn't get a chance to breathe if they ever want your support in future elections.
To paraphrase someone:
You need to win every time. I need you to lose only once.
Anyone thinking that this won't pass this time, or next year, or the year after that or the year... They will push this as a new thing, wrapping the same bullshit lies in a new paper each time...
Eventually it'll pass, it always does. All they need is patience
The only possible cou ter to this is to enshrine the right to own a computer and internet access into your constitution or something like that.
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No it wont. Because we're gonna light shit on fire until this goes away, ICE melts, and the hostages are released from the internment camps. Right?
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"Parents Decide Act"
Yet text of it has basically nothing about parents in it, just government data collection lol
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