So do the cops. Guns, and drones, and APCs, and tanks, and bombs, and weapons of mass destruction, and no hesitation about using them on citizens. They also have Flock and Palantir, so forget about organizing to take them on.
It’s synecdoche, those two names a stand-in for the surveillance-state apparatus, which is much larger. But, by all means, start organizing the armed resistance.
You guys have guns.
French people get their saline vials (to try and rinse out CS gas) confiscated because the cops get away with it.
So do the cops. Guns, and drones, and APCs, and tanks, and bombs, and weapons of mass destruction, and no hesitation about using them on citizens. They also have Flock and Palantir, so forget about organizing to take them on.
This is pretty doomer. There are plenty of ways to circumvent Flock and Palantir.
It’s synecdoche, those two names a stand-in for the surveillance-state apparatus, which is much larger. But, by all means, start organizing the armed resistance.
I feel like a lot of us kind of already have.
Orwell be like, bruhs, I literally told you this would happen.