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Have you noticed the effects of dystopia yet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

I was with my brother and his group of friends, and one of his friends was talking about various drugs. My brother told him, "Shut up, you're going to put us on a watchlist," and he said it in a serious tone. It felt pretty dystopian when he said that; honestly, it was a bit eerie, mostly because he's being controlled and self-censoring without anyone there, and he seems to be aware of the freedom he's giving up, yet he continues to act this way. I've talked to my brother about privacy and why it's important many times, but he would rather live this type of controlled life and doesn't care because "they already know everything about me anyway." He's in his early 20s.

Has anyone else had moments like this?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

The goal is not to avoid the watch lists. The goal is to be on so many that they become useless.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Shout out to all the homies on the "eats ice cream with a fork" list.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Whoa, hey, getting put on a list is one thing, but no need to be a monster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Now I have a new goal in life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

But what if that just flags you as low class citizen at some point, the kind that cant go to certain places and gets actively harassed by police constantly? It will go there eventually if nothing improves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Make the feds earn their salaries.

Freedom ain't free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you'd just SQL JOIN them on social security/passport num and use them all at once

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

The goal is to be on so many that SQL JOIN goes OOM 😅