Occam's Spleen

Our politics probably don't agree. Anger Over Ignorance. If you're following me expecting a follow back you'll be waiting a long damn time.

[pinkleftygirl @pinkleftygirl]

“Unskilled labor" is a myth the ruling class made up to justify poverty wages.
All labor is skilled labor.
Every job deserves a living wage.

[S2 Underground @s2_underground]

First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times.

Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye.

Note the argument:

"You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL".

Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal.

That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation.

Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to.

They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates.

They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please.

And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME".

You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys".

We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try.

For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court.

That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@Judieth31116 @OrevaZSN Sounds like you can't afford to run a business then. Hope this helps

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@kannanrajaram @Simon_Ingari Depends on where you live. I live in a one party consent state so legally I can record any conversation I have without asking permission of the others.

[Lloyd Kaufman @lloydkaufman]

Hey, so. After Charlie Kirk was killed, did the left doxx his kids' school and barrage it with so much harassment and violent threats it had to shut down for the safety of the students and staff?
Because the right did that to Renee Good's six year old son's school. Thank you fans

[Hot Takes in Your Area @seaweedanxiety]

well I WASN’T an assassination attempt conspiracy theorist

[Kelski @kelskiYT]

Finally caught up on all the drama

Why in the blue fuck is a guy named “PirateSoftware” boot licking corpo bean bags and completely misrepresenting the movement

There’s so many ways to preserve games, even ones that depend on online function, it’s crazy man

STOP KILLING GAMES

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@daligerin @FranklinHa12947 @RetroAgent12 @PeteButtigieg Holy shit you're a stupid cunt

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@tj_littlejohn I hope they actually do sue your pants off loser <3

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@EWErickson @RepMcCormick Pretty sure bearing false witness is a sin Erick. Not that you care, it's pretty obvious your Christianity is a facade

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@bubdey Me

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@EWErickson He wasn't pardoned you hack

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@GLFOP He campaigned on releasing those people you dumb cunts

[Andrew Lawrence @ndrew_lawrence]

how am i supposed to find common ground with people who think the california fires spread bc lesbians and black people have jobs

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I agree…..

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@LorrieSyms @ICiaPia @ashabitesu No she didnt, shut the fuck up

[Occam's Spleen @SymphonicD]

@Betty1979GenX @AP You sound like an idiot

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

An innocent man is being executed Monday

— No DNA from him at crime scene, but DNA from 2 others on murder weapon

— Jury did NOT know about the DNA

— Prosecutors now agree he’s innocent

MO Gov. Mike Parson should do the RIGHT thing — pardon Marcellus Williams

Please RT this!