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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
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In comp.os.linux.misc D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025, Sn!pe wrote:
>> IMO we in the UK are going along with that as proxy for the Merkins,
>> their TLAs being precluded from spying directly on their own citizens.
>> It's well known that the NSA, CIA, DHS, etc. have a hot line to GCHQ
>> and info is regularly shared both ways as a matter of course.  Ditto
>> with the whole Five* Eyes surveillance group.
>>
>> * - or however many it is these days.
> 
> This is the truth! A very convenient way to game the system. I would vote 
> against it, if I could, and if I were not against voting. ;)

I've been voting against it for years in Aus. Annoyingly at the
last federal election the rules for political parties were changed
which meant the parties most opposed to such things were all too
small to be included, so I couldn't even vote for them anymore!

What's the good of democracy if you can't even con yourself into
thinking you're doing something to oppose things you don't want
the government to do by voting against them? No wonder fringe
groups are getting more radical if democracy here won't even let
them in anymore.

It's enough to make me want to move, but to where? To where?
Certainly not to the USA, they're worse again.

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