• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Ask Naomi Wu.

    To my knowledge, Naomi Wu was never “black bagged”. She’s still selling stuff on cybernightmarket. She’s just done posting politics.

    But to compare the grief Wu got (and, from what I read forever ago, it was as much other terminally online types screaming at her as any state intervention) with Leqaa Kordia or Mahmoud Khalil both of whom absolutely were “black bagged” in the literal sense? Wu was not indefinitely detained in a prison camp or threatened with torture unless she “voluntarily self-deported”, at least as far as I could find.

    Russia basically is this already.

    Russia is so much more, as they’ve weaponized their prison population into military conscripts.

    Really not looking forward to the day I’m arrested by an ICE agent who is, himself, wearing a bomb collar.

    Capitalism itself is not the motivation for the surveillance state

    The surveillance state is a vital tool of private industry when executives fear a proletariat insurrection. It is a necessary precondition to prevent insurrection.

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      1 hour ago

      Russia is so much more, as they’ve weaponized their prison population into military conscripts.

      It’s even more than that. Russia has weaponized their entire civilian population. It’s straight up nazi-level shit where you’re either Z or you’re a traitor. This is what American maga salivates about - complete and utter obedience through surveillance, legal and cultural bullying.

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      2 hours ago

      To my knowledge, Naomi Wu was never “black bagged”. She’s still selling stuff on cybernightmarket. She’s just done posting politics.

      She disappeared from western social media, where she was very active before. Her latest post on twitter was chilling, I just hope she and her partner are ok.