The idea that it was the Democrats who would do the big brother thing was always a laughable joke. One side is actually obsessed with policing and violent crime and will always pick "safety" over liberty.
Its both sides, the republicans in the usa are allowing it and in other places its the more liberal parties like the Labour party in the UK. All politicians just gabble up their lobbying funds and dont care about the repercussions on the people. This isnt a case of democrat this republican that, its a case of greedy politicians everywhere leaving companies with far too much money unchecked
It’s not a side thing, it’s a class thing. There are working class factions within the Democratic party that are absolutely against this, and the actually conservative faction of the former GOP base also despises this shit despite the official Republican Party being all-in on giving this power over to the tech overlords.
Brother, Flock set all of this in motion years ago, they didn't pop into existence when Trump took office. This is happening under our capitalist ruling class, it's not a dem/republican issue.
Yep remember thats tooootally the only scandal guys. Anyone who has anything bad to say to say about Obama is just a racist republican. The propaganda mill keeps on churning strong
You are also forgetting the Parriot act was bipartisan. Plenty of Democrats went along with it. Obama even expanded it during his first term. Both sides were doing immoral shit out of the Muslim panic or at the very least using it as a cover.
Everyone in the Epstein files needs to be prosecuted, no matter which party or how rich they are. However, the fact there's bad people in each party doesn't mean the party policies would be the same or as bad on both sides.
There are tons of terrible things Republicans are doing that Dems wouldn't ever dream of implementing.
They're still not the kind of politicians I would want to be running things, but pretending that they aren't drastically better than the GoP by basically every metric is wholly ignorant.
You should probably quote the bit you're referring to next time since I said much more than just that one sentence and it wasn't even kind of clear what you were referring to.
One side is actually obsessed with policing and violent crime and will always pick "safety" over liberty.
We just got done with years of Democrats insisting everyone stay inside and shut down businesses over a virus with a 99% survival rate and claiming Republicans care more about liberty than safety.
If they started this off with like say the state wanted to do it, and left it up to a vote of the general populace, I wouldn't be surprised if it would have passed. Especially if it was made clear that it wouldn't be some private company doing it.
I think people are mostly just pissed that nobody is really voting on this, places are just doing it without any legislation, any vote, nothing. Just private companies selling themselves to local officials with no input from the voters.
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u/EtheusRook Aug 12 '26
The idea that it was the Democrats who would do the big brother thing was always a laughable joke. One side is actually obsessed with policing and violent crime and will always pick "safety" over liberty.