The Department of Homeland Security should abide by the constitution.
That's my random criticism of The Department of Homeland Security.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Funny how when you let conservatives have power your rights start being infringed upon.
Anyway, I wonder how Palestine is doing.
Honestly dude, I cannot fucking believe people thought Trump would be better for Palestine than Kamala.... I just don't fucking understand how so many people can come to that conclusion, unless I really think about it, and then the reasons are all so sad and stupid. I swear to god the main reason, above racism, above hate, above the propaganda of the election cycle, the main reason he won over Hillary and then Kamala is that he had a TV show for many years. A lot of people over look the simple fact that in the American psyche, being on TV is validating, or at least it was when Trump was elected, before everything went upside down. People will stay in the same shitty town and keep the same toxic relatives in their lives for their wholes lives vs finding people that they actually harmonize with because they're familiar. People who grew up in shitty households find partners like their shitty parents because the shitty behavior is familiar. "Familiar" feels like family. Trump was a household name, and some people didn't even know Kamala had been swapped in half way through the election season. So they trusted Trump when he'd lie because he's familiar, but they distrusted her when she seemed to avoid a subject because she's unfamiliar and so inherently suspicious. They should have both been suspicious af, but he had a TV show and was president once before so they trusted him more.... which is very fucking stupid.
I cannot fucking believe people thought Trump would be better for Palestine than Kamala…
Few did. Those of us who knew that people would stay home because of it tried to warn everyone that if Harris didn't change course, she would lose. Centrists didn't want to hear any of it. They either didn't believe us or didn't care because they wanted genocide so badly that they were willing to accept trump.
And I fully expect someone to reply to this by trying to convince me to vote for her even though I did and the election is over.
Nobody actually thought Trump would be better for Palestine. The ones that said they did were bots.
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Yeah, I think you're hitting on something important. This is probably also why people living under dictatorships sometimes approve of their dictator. The devil you know.
It's called propaganda, and it sure worked. Divide and conquer.
Trump had a tv show ?? new shit has come to light
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I fully expect Google to comply. Thankfully, the only service of theirs that I use is Youtube.
If a civil war happens, I think a side effect is that Google's domination over video platforms would be over. People would end up flocking towards the ones that aren't in service to the Regime.
Please don't use official YouTube clients
Use a YouTube frontend. Don't give them any ad revenue. Make it cost them money to service you.
But maybe directly support the creators you watch. They shouldn't also suffer because of Google
Nah.
So sick of "creators" and "content".
People used to make videos for fun. Choosing to be on YouTube for money is so stupid. They have no contract.
The only way to get them to move on is not supporting them, on YouTube.
I say this as a Nebula subscriber and direct payment to a few entertainers I like. But they are not on youtube.
That's fair. I've been meaning to set up patreon donations to the handful of creators I still watch. Thanks for reminding me.
YouTube lose would be a blow. All the knowledge there that would be lost is massive. And nobody is going to replace it.
What fools we've been, thinking we could televise the revolution on a corporate monopolist video platform, where ultimately they have absolute control over. Even bigger fools we've been, pinning our emancipatory power hopes to our labour?
Would it be lost? Do people upload but not keep copies? I barely look at YouTube at all anymore. I could do without it.
It doesn't seem to be as well known, but YouTube is one of the biggest distributors of blatant disinformation, and they have done fuck all about it. There are so many individual right wing disinformation channels that wield so much more power than they should. It's so fuckin insidious. Seriously, go find one of the alt-right YouTube accounts, and just look at the comments. Not a single one will be negative. They literally police their comments, and the only thing left is sycophantic bullshit like "thank you for exposing the truth!" It's actually disgusting. Every YouTuber can essentially build their very own echo chamber, and they do.
I know YouTube comments should generally be ignored, but when you see something that is intentionally, blatantly misleading, a single sentence comment could be all that is required to pierce the veil. It's axiomatic at this point that their bullshit doesn't stand up against even surface level scrutiny.
Google could combat this with little to no effort. Put a flag next the username. Display the number of manually deleted comments. Done. But they won't. Fuck youtube. Fuck Google. They are perfectly happy to lead the charge into fascism.
It's not just political disinformation. Watch a few how to videos on something you know a lot about. You'll find the same wrong information repeated over and over.
All of these 'content creators' are really just 'regurgitationists'.
If you want to know how to do something wrong, watch a you tube tutorial.
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No knowledge would be lost. Books exist, other video platforms exist too. Fuck YT, fuck Google, hope they die soon.
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The RSHA and NKVD dream. It's time to dump Gmail.
There is no reason to honor these warrantless requests. The Bush Administration sent National Security Letters to them, demanding all this information without a warrant and threatening massive penalties if they told anyone. They had no legal basis to do such a thing, the constitution demands they get a warrant from a judge as laid out in the 4th amendment and calls anything in violation of the constitution to be illegal and unenforceable.
But the rot has been spreading for a half a century, the immune system of the Republic is haywire, we have autoimmune conditions, the immune system attacks healthy parts of the body.
America isn't a country of laws anymore. The supreme court rubber stamps anything the administration wants to do, and the administration "declines requests from the judiciary". You've got administration officials that don't know what Habeas Corpus means, suspending Habeas Corpus. You've got a military openly/brazenly committing war crimes on the international scene (blowing up unverified "narco boats"/civilians). You've got a paramilitary gestapo-like force quite literally shooting citizens in the streets, your own government aiming to terrorize its people -- which's the whole point of the violent Ice operations targeting blue states.
But yeah, sure, Google and the big tech bros who have been supporting Trump's actions throughout all of this will totally draw the line at disclosing data.
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I'm glad I was already well on the pathway to de-googling
And folks, if you haven’t de-googled yourself by now, well it’s past time.
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Jeffery Epstein had a gmail account. The redacted emails are in his gmail account. Google should be forced to publish everything fucking now!
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They don't need to demand. They already have access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
The cloud act requires a warrant, this is them just demanding access.
"The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil."
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