Funny how that works.

They kinda do.

Yup, they followed up with a Super Bowl ad to that effect, and the negative response was so strong that Ring/Amazon immediately walked it back.

Here’s one source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/investigators-wrangled-video-nancy-guthries-google-nest-camera-backend-rcna258460

I’m 100% sure it was Kash’s call, and he was just too stupid to realize what the FBI was inadvertently admitting to by releasing this footage.

Another reminder that if there is a god out there, they’re the type of god that likes to burn ants with a magnifying glass.

Sure, there’s a film and TV comedian named Chevy Chase here in the USA and he did a few bits when he was on Saturday Night Live where he dramatically fell down stairs.

they want all of that “spying on their own people” power for themselves.

My assumption as well, after after the video release in the Guthrie case, we know objectively that every device with a microphone or camera and a wireless connection is spying on us and feeding the data to the US government without a warrant too.

I keep waiting for him to inadvertently trip down those steps and pull a Chevy Chase.

Also, and this is really fun, I literally predicted this in September 2024.

Also, this is funny. I predicted the race and your behavior in September 2024.

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A very useful comment. Thank you, and have a lovely Sunday.

Simple.

The billionaires decide.

You can blame the whole of the US population if you like, but voters here only have any power on the local level. National elections are wholly driven and decided by the billionaire class (which is why you saw both Democrats and Republicans fight so hard against Mamdani), so to me, it’s a tad absurd to pretend that the people as a whole support this. That’s even more true when you look at the 2025 and 2026 elections (so far), where nearly all of the candidates backed by Donald have lost, regardless of the state, and most in districts Donald won by double digits in 2024. (Demonstrating that people do not support the war in Iran or the pedophile coverup.)

Hell, Donald can’t even gerrymander anymore, because the Republican Party can’t accurately project where they have voter strength. That is the incredible extent to which people are opposed to this.

And you make yourself sound ignorant by pretending otherwise in the face of all of these facts.

The downside is that, since the Epstein Class controls politics at the national level, the opposition party doesn’t really oppose anything, but there are a few candidates with some strength that could do some limited good, like Graham Platner.

We did this.

Speak for yourself. I voted Green.

Trump is the inevitable result of liberals spending all their energy opposing progressives and cooperating with fascists.

That’s a salient point, but the ‘we’ you’re pointing to isn’t a part of this. Billionaires and the Epstein Class are who the finger should be pointing at. Voters only have any real power at the local level, unless you’re planning to follow in the footsteps of Player 2.

We decided at some point to stop enforcing laws on rich people

Again, I’d argue there’s no we here. The only power you or I have is in our local neighborhood, and in mine, we’re doing good things. Hell, my city was one of the few to put a killer cop behind bars. (And in the US, you can count on your fingers the number of killer cops who’ve spent any time in prison.)

Go for it.

Your ignorance of American culture doesn’t offend me.

I’m not surprised.

The people who rule our country are shameless motherfuckers, propped up by an electorate that, to the tune of 99% will vote them back in no matter what they do.

Y’all, the videos he made are absolute bangers.

Awesome. Thank you for the tips!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

I’ll go do that. Thank you.

You’re not wrong. That’s almost certainly, in part, a driving factor behind the urgency of starting these wars now.

I still wish someone, somewhere could have backed up Geocities. That was a huge chunk of Internet history lost.