Ran across this on insta today.
How do they know this:
Vibes
Meaningless nonsense or not, this is the classic narrative manufacturing where the US creates a security threat and then criticizes the targeted state for addressing the security threat. Why should Venezuela not be increasing surveillance while the US is attacking and killing its citizens?
And openly bragging that the CIA is conducting operations on the ground from the President's mouth. I mean they are at war. It isn't theoretical, their enemy the US empire is off their coast poking and prodding at them, arming up for an attack, has said it considers their government illegitimate and has made its goals toppling that government and taking the oil. This is a siege situation and harsh measures may be needed.
Creating double binds is an old standby of US foreign policy.
freeze banks
Invalidate passport
Block gas
Deny hospital access
Cut off utilities
Erase your identity
tfw it's all 
lmao.
Their proof is that banking websites were slow on christmas. JFC.
Venezuela released VIDEO of girl in WELL that KILLS YOU after 7 DAYS
the united states government famously can't revoke an ID and make your life hell
They have a switch that can delete my entire digital footprint? Comrade Maduro, sign me the fuck up
Source?
Well, they're evil and we're good. So if we're doing this vile, heinous shit they must be doing something at least as bad, right?
Even if true the most sinister thing here is checks notes the government being able to deny you government benefits. Only in Venezuela, am I right?
We need to invade the commies to stop them from stopping communism, communistically.
And here I thought conservatives were all for that
This isn't going to manufacture anything with europeans because the euro countries are all doing or in the stages of planning to do this centralisation. They are being convinced to do it by Palantir under the basis that a centralisation of data is better for AI parsing it.
Oh, no, best part: somebody in the comments saying it was palantir doing it and that it was what they wanted to bring home to us.
The last slide just looks like a joke, nobody believes that Chinese social credit shit anymore serious except the most moronic of right wingers. Most libs have learned it's not really true.
You'd think so, but...
The feds are so drunk on their own sauce they don't even realise how out of date their own propaganda is
Nope, pretty sure libs definitely still believe it’s true.
I think you underestimate the liberal ability to be hypocritical about their own beliefs.
It'll be a "Yeah, it's bad when it happens anywhere, which is why Venezuela's government has to go!"
data centralization is hardly a palantir thing, not to sound like im defending their intentions with people's data, but bureaucrats want consolidation and simplification independent of state surveillance.
having multiple divided certificates and identifications is neither security for individuals or a guard for civil rights generally--they have to put more words in the 'state enemies don't get X' clause, big deal. the only reason the width of independent state documentation exists is because it was impossible to consolidate with the technology that existed when the systems were set up.
The kill-switch for citizens is called the trigger of a cop's gun in the US.
And in the democracy loving United States of America, the government just kills you.
Bovedes nutz
I'm so fucking tired of this shit
Be the monkey wrench you wish to see in the world.
This is just something the US will implement.
you are not immune to propaganda but like, come on, have some self respect man
What is the NSA?
Source:
Invalidate your passport? Can't have that, it's reserved for true threats to national security like taking a fully-filmed bus tour in Bad Country alongside normal citizens from other western nations.
We intercepted the packets and inspected them deeply
We hit f12 and saw a .gov url
Why would you even include the "how we know this" slide if that's what it looks like? Even if we took them 100% at their word about all that "evidence," what they're describing in no way follows from the evidence presented. It would have been more convincing if they just hadn't included any "evidence" at all.
Because the average person doesn't know what any of that means. It's just something for them nod at.
I remember once around the 2016 era I was reading an article where they were accusing Russia of hacking election offices and it turns out that they were just being port scanned like every other IP is 24/7. But people bought right into that narrative hook, line, and sinker. I had so many arguments with libs in my life about that shit. And I'm someone that can point to my own work being on wikipedia. But my word meant nothing because I'm just some nerd they know, and the news is an authority figure in their lives. The Consent do be manufactured.
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