Progressive Politics

She added: “And the other thing that’s interesting, I was thinking about this the other day, is that eventually regimes make science and medicine bow to their ideology. So the communists would, you know, use psychiatrists to say that dissidents or journalists who didn’t agree with the regime had to go to psychiatric hospitals.

this is extremely dangerous (because what do you do when a state-owned "psychiatrist" accuses you of being "mentally unstable"? say "no, i'm not"?), especially now with facial recognition technology--remember they were able to find most of the j6 insurrectionists, aided by social media posts. and that was before a blatantly fascist dictator owned the NSA, FBI, etc

if you're going to go above the radar, then you need to be careful. mask up, leave your phone at home, cover tattoos--all of it. assume any place you're protesting is covered by 24/7 surveillance cams. i live in a tiny town and even here, there really isn't a spot downtown that isn't covered by at least 2 cameras, let alone the spots where people protest