cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27995219

Now we’re mixing the leadership of law enforcement and military.

In other news, armed minorities are harder to suppress.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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    Why does everything they do feel like it’s just another step in their plan that ends with all of us dead, all of our wealth stolen by them and all of our daughters forced birthing their rape babies?

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      Jokes on them, I’ve never had wealth or any prospects of having children.

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          I come from a long line of poors. If there was any wealth stolen it was before the founding of America.

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            Your data is worth millions of dollars to businesses.

            That is yours.

            Yet they pay each other for your stuff.

            I’m telling you, your wealth is being stolen every day.

            You only believe you’re poor because you’re convinced your property belongs to someone else.

            You aren’t poor, your wealth has been stolen from you.

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              The collective data of everyone is worth millions. My personal data is a few cents at best.

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                Facebook with a few hundred million users is worth 1.5T. That’s one company. That’s the obvious one.

                Your data gets sold over and over and over and over.

                Other people are stealing your data (wealth you don’t realize is worth millions) and letting some asshole convert it into their own personal cash machine.

                All under the guise of “meh it’s only a few cents”

                What a load of horse hockey that doesn’t hold up to basics scrutiny.

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                  The value of a company is just made up bullshit. It has nothing to do with the value of any one person’s data.

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      Because it is, and I keep getting deleted for pointing out that a bunch of stupid fucking signs isn’t going to cut it.

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        I keep getting deleted for pointing out that a bunch of stupid fucking signs isn’t going to cut it.

        Well you’re certainly standing up to the authoritarians by telling people not to make their voices heard. /s

        What are YOU doing then? Should I watch the evening news tonight opening to see you marching into a government building?

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          When you put boots in my country, I will do my part, and it won’t be with a fucking sign.

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            From context and from your Lemmy instance I’m assuming you’re in Canada?

            When you put boots in my country

            Okay, so that hasn’t happened yet. So you want nothing done until then? Those of us on the USA side that love Canada should just shut up and not protest when I see trump threatening my brothers and sisters in Canada?

            If you’re curious, my protest sign was “Hands off Canada!”. You’re saying I should have stayed home instead?

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                toxic arguing from you.

                I just don’t want my best neighbor to the north to be invaded by my country run by an authoritarian and I’m willing to stand up and say it out loud in public on the street. Fuck me, right? So toxic!

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    The abrupt change in leadership comes at a time when senior Justice Department officials are weighing whether to merge the ATF with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as part of an effort to cut costs.

    Merging the departments together under GOP control, really? They’ll have to rename the departments then. These jokes write themselves.

    Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms or DAFT?

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      No, they need to put it in order of how much they love it: Firearms, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs. They’re getting some FAT D

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        ATF literally already has a division named this.

        Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD).

        They do “testing” on commercial products and in recent years they’ve mostly been tasked with railroading people who didn’t do anything.

        The entire Bureau should be shut down and replaced with a hot dog stand.

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        ATF literally already has a division named this.

        Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD).

        They do “testing” on commercial products and in recent years they’ve mostly been tasked with railroading people who didn’t do anything.

        The entire Bureau should be shut down and replaced with a hot dog stand.

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      The saying about ATF was that it sounded like a convenience store rather than a govt agency. I guess adding drugs just makes it better.

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      No, they need to put it in order of how much they love it: Firearms, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs. They’re getting some FAT D

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    Note that the Secretary of the Army is a civilian position. (The current secretary is Dan Driscoll, who is an Army veteran, though only as a 1LT from 2007-2011.)