I know, I giggled. Apropos.

It’s Slavic, btw.

Saying it while he gets away with it and gloats may.

Sometimes any attention is better than none, you know?

Flock, based in Georgia and valued at $8.4bn, says its cameras scan license plates billions of times each month in about 6,000 communities in nearly every state in the US.

Georgia. Of course.

He wrote on a GoFundMe created to pay for legal expenses: “I will take the silver lining that this can be a catalyst in a bigger movement to roll back intrusive surveillance.”

He should move that fundraiser to givesendgo or elsewhere, immediately, based on GoFundMe TOS.

Flock did not comment on vigilantes knocking out its cameras but did publish a blogpost in mid-July about helping government agencies respond if a camera is damaged.

“We’ve planned for it,” the company wrote, adding that protection plans are available for purchase.

😲 J/k

Law enforcement is aware of the backlash and responding. Dozens of state fusion centers – collaborative hubs where federal and local agencies share intelligence about crime and terrorism – circulated memos across law enforcement agencies this summer directing officers to monitor anti-Flock advocacy as part of a directive to protect national security, according to reporting from journalist Dan Boguslaw. One report Boguslaw obtained from a Wisconsin intelligence agency calls for increased vigilance and patrols during protests and events such as a “national week of action” in mid-August. That intelligence digest also advised local law enforcement to report “vandalism, disruption or sabotage” of ALPRs to fusion centers.

It’s a universal ban based on some perceived offense, real or not. No context, so no judgement.

I can see both.

Oh, an aside… I just said elsewhere: They’re making Iraq into a Ukraine and putting Amidi in Zelensky’s impossible position. It’s essentially loading the gun, and telling him to put it to his head and pull the trigger, while having another pointed at the base of his skull.

From what I’m hearing, the Russian people are kind of pissed he’s been lollygagging, rather than finishing it.

In this thread, they spit facts.

“Anything factual I don’t like is Russian propaganda.”

That’s unironically why the West cares.

Putin was brought up in a communist household. He didn’t embrace liberalism because he liked it, but he does now because he does now.

They’re the same picture. “Good cop”/bad cop, a cop is a cop. And well, acab*.

No it isn’t. Putin didn’t violate the Minsk or any other agreement. Ukraine, USA, and NATO did.

He embraced neonazism liberalism, which the architect of Liberal Shock Therapy has said repeatedly is a mistake, so maybe he’s not unintelligent, but like the rest of the Good Guy Liberals©, is just doing Kabuki theatre until he, too, can get to his bunkers.

Indeed. What was questioned was my usage in this context.

15th cousins, 25th removed, I should have clarified!

I appreciate the exchange as well. Cheers!

Eta: Maybe the fireworks mishap crowd is just a cousin from a previous generation [full stop, because we all are).

There are several, mostly indigenous.

Not enough, apparently.