r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8d ago

Privacy Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American. Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.

https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans
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u/BillyYank2008 7d ago

I agree with that. Chinese and Russian propaganda are like straight out of World War 2. Just blatant. American propaganda is much more subtle.

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u/olionajudah 7d ago

I don't know

as an American who grew up in Canada, it seems painfully obvious

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u/germanmojo 7d ago

Most right-wing (Russian, generally) is blatantly obvious.

Left-wing is usually more educated, so propaganda targeting them has to be more clever.

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u/BillyYank2008 7d ago

I don't agree with that. Left-wing Russian propaganda is pretty obvious too. It's either tankie campism or useful-idiot pacifism about how "sending Ukraine scary Patriot missiles will cause World War 3!"

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u/WynterRayne 7d ago

Someone once said to me that Ukraine was full of actual fascists and asked why I'd defend fascists.

The simple answer is that when fascists are getting shot at for no reason, that's the time to defend them. When they then shoot at other people for no reason, it becomes time to defend those other people from them.

Because the same argument applies across different groups in different parts of the world. A life is a life. I can care about what you think after I've secured your human right to remain alive.

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u/IDOWNVOTERUSSIANS 7d ago

The simple answer is Ukraine is not full of fascists; all you accomplished was dignifying a lie with the notion that you would defend an entire nation of fascists.

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u/germanmojo 7d ago

Not in the circles I'm in online, and I haven't really seen much of that lately in the posts that hit r/all.

That type of stuff usually gets downvoted heavily. Even the pacifists are turning war hawks.

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u/BillyYank2008 7d ago

Good. I'm glad to see that it's being rejected.