• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    ok ill be the one to say it then: the NSA are fascists. the NSA is evil.

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      1 day ago

      What is your definition of Fascist, here?

      It seems to get tossed around at everything, these days. Not a fan if the NSA either, nor the Patriot Act, either.

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        23 hours ago

        fascism is capitalism showing its teeth, like what trump is doing more overtly now. one part of it involves enforcing a bolder and more baldfaced surveillance/police state.

        the NSA is literally one of the intelligence arms of said surveillance state. they help manipulate people, find and disappear dissidents, suppress resistance and such. not unlike a few other 3 letter agencies.

        they’ve been quacking like fascists way before trump, they have feathers like fascists and swim like fascists. hence why i call it fascist.

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      3 days ago

      Lol i really cringed at that phrasing about “good people doing bad things”. Theyre literally fascists doing fascism to advance their interests, it really doesn’t matter if they are vegan and have dogs.

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        2 days ago

        Je was a contractor for the NSA, sis you think he was going to say anything different?