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Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras | The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 79 points 2 days ago (6 children)

At what point do we stop voting for the people putting up the flock cameras, and start voting for those that have comprehensive plans to address real issues?

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  • [–] 42 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It's currently happening. Progressives are beating neolib incumbents in primaries.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

    In my blue state district, Democrats voted for the genocidal incumbent who receives big money from AIPAC and that voted to fund ICE. It's amazing how the media can shift everyone's attention to a very small handful of elections, and then also use those elections to make people think progressives are winning big while also labeling them all DSA. You have much to learn my friend about the games being played and that will be played.

    I live in a so-called "progressive" blue state. Multiple red states have better privacy laws similar to California's CCPA, more consumer protections, etc. Anyone can call themselves a progressive and that word in itself means almost nothing... heck, they give countless handouts here to Amazon and Microsoft, and a large number of people that claim to be progressives work for those same companies while living in gentrified neighborhoods where they make being homeless essentially illegal now.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It's not going to change overnight. The movement is still picking up momentum.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    In some states (like mine), they shove these laws allowing access into omnibus must pass bills, and since representatives cant vote down on them, you basically would have to vote everyone out. Better ideas is to show up at every city and county meeting, with your community members and make such noise about it, that they have to do something about it so they can't keep hiding behind under the counter deals.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Seems most people vote their feels or their chosen clan... Whoever they think they get along better with socially.

    It seems few people seriously assess a politicians job qualification or work hisrory.

    Heck, my SO just lets me do the work, but I refused to just let them copy my vote. I write up paragraph summaries for each candidate then a blurb explaining my choice. They can disagree if they want, it's okay. I don't look to see how they vote, or ask, but they basically tell me they trust me and just wanna copy me.

    It's honestly pretty upsetting.

    And I bet one partner in most relationships just does the same, or votes party line, or just generally doesn't give a hoot but votes anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    I mean, we could do that, but maybe instead we should all jist vote based on the politics of some bull shit going on on the other side of the world or the need to stop like 10 trans people playing sportsball.

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