one of the greatest injustices of the modern surveillance state besides the physical harm wrought by it is an inability to express the unyielding fucking rage towards these fucking lower-than-filth scumbags even through text without the tickling fear of having your name jotted down somewhere, no matter how anonymous you think you are
This is exactly why all of us around during the bush admin were fuckin pissed about the patriot act. I had multiple fuckin death threats leveled at me for not being “patriotic” enough for deigning to question it after 9/11. And we’re the same ones who were fuckin pissed at Obama for continuing to support it when it was up for renewal. And we were the ones beating our heads against the “i don’t care, I have nothing to hide” and “anyone listening to my conversations will be very bored lolol” walls because fuckheads didn’t listen during the Snowden revelations.
There have been multiple studies that people subconsciously AND consciously change their behavior when presented with THE POSSIBILITY that their communications are being monitored.
Here we are, after every single one of those decisions went against us. And now we’ve gone WAY beyond privatized surveillance to the point that it’s a GIVEN that we are under constant surveillance. It’s fucked
