History shows that police states aren’t declared: they’re assembled piece by piece, until one day ordinary people realize the freedoms they once took for granted have quietly disappeared…

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    We’ve been in a police state for a long time. For profit prisons, militarized police, more prisoners per capita than ANY other country…ect

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      This is correct.

      Police state has been fully enacted and kicked into high gear post 911, thrown into overdrive as of this administration.

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    Did the person who wrote this just sleep through the War on Terror… you know… when Obama and Bush were disappearing people into black sites and torture chambers?

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      The comparison is a natural one, because of their overt Nazi ideology. In and of itself, however, ICE is comparable to any secret police force—every autocracy has its own unit that makes dissidents disappear and spreads fear and terror among the population. That’s just the way it is.

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    Yes, the US has been a police state for 250 years. The slavery apparatus wasn’t held up by magic. The Black Panthers didn’t fall apart on their own. This is how the country has always been

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    … who doesn’t know it? We’ve been there for at least a decade in the US

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    Atm mind reading technology exists. In addition to the reading of thoughts, emotional states can be detected.

    Thomas R. Insel

    In December, 2015, Dr. Insel joined Verily, a health technology start-up emerging from Google X.[17] At Verily, he founded and led the mental health team with a focus on digital phenotyping, using smartphone signals for measuring behavior and mood.

    They changed this portion recently. When I discovered this this page. It said something like “technology that enables the detection of emotional states via devices”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R._Insel?wprov=sfla1