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[–] [email protected] 99 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Planter nooooooooooo

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Don't be afraid of them. Say it all loudly and often.

Donald Trump is a traitor who should have been hung years ago. Elon Musk is a Nazi who should be beaten to death in the streets. Palantir should be dismantled for supporting and enabling fascism around the world. All billionaires should be publicly executed for crimes against humanity. The current American government is an enemy of freedom and democracy around the globe and should be overthrown by force if peaceful means are no longer possible, which looks more and more each day to be an accurate assessment of the situation.

Fear will not silence us. We have more power than they ever will. All we have to do is decide to use it.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

boomers will be dead and gone and not have to deal with it

classic fucking boomers

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Between this and the ICE contractor ShadowDragon using their platform SocialNet to track "potential threats" it's beginning to paint a grim picture.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How does it work? If people post from a anonymous accounts

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't know a lot but I made a comment about it before that I share here with some basic info and further reading. I'll post it here.

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TL;DR:

ICE contractor ShadowDragon uses their platform SocialNet to map individuals' digital footprints, personal data and connections across 200+ sites such as OnlyFans, WhatsApp, Roblox and Duolingo.

ShadowDragon claims it accesses data in real-time without storing it, sidestepping some accountability.

ICE and other agencies, including the DEA and State Department, use SocialNet for investigations, citing its utility in tracking criminal activity, despite their unwillingness to prove that criminality in court.

Link to the 404Media article without the required sign in.

Link to Mozilla's follow-up article which mentions some additional involved companies.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it's okay guys! The NRA said they were here to prevent this sort of thing!

We're in goooood hands!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

Oh yea they will rise up but they will stand on the side of tyranny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What Chinese social credit score?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Every accusation is an admission

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Thank you Dear Leader.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago

Writing about the secret social credit system:

-200 good boy points

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t this essentially the plot to Winter Soldier?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

And Minority Report.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

next up credit scores based on Palantir db.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago

Make America North Korea Again!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Isn't that what credit score already is?

Just expand that, maybe with generative AI since the accuracy doesn't matter.

/s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Not really, a credit score is based on your ability to repay loans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And it determines where you can live, what jobs tou can hold, and wheree your kids can go to school. The system that was developed immediately aftyer the federal government said you can't discriminate on race is definitely fair.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

And it determines where you can live, what jobs tou can hold, and wheree your kids can go to school.

How? Wealth determines that, not your loan repayment history. You can be barely making ends meet (and therefore very limited in the above stuff) with a perfect credit score, and a millionaire (and therefore practically unlimited in the above stuff) with a shitty one, or none at all if you inherited enough wealth that you never had to take any loans.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Didn’t say it was fair or good.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (5 children)

As well as your willingness to take on debt.

No credit score (AKA living so frugally that you don't need credit) is a bad score too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You don't have to actually "take on debt" to establish a good credit score, though. If you use a credit card whenever you'd otherwise use cash you have on hand, and instead use that cash to pay off the card's statement balance every month (essentially just paying your month's expenses all at once instead of on demand for each expense), you're never truly in debt (read: you're charged no interest), but a credit score is established and continuously improved, via both the consistent payments, and the aging of that line of credit.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How do you know that? The algo is proprietary, anything can go into it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

The minutia of the algorithm is private, to prevent gaming it, but the major factors are very well known, and make perfect sense.

  • utilization percentage (if you're maxing out your credit line(s) all the time, that's a bad sign)
  • payment history (if you don't make payments by the due date consistently, that's obviously an indicator that you're risky to lend to)
  • age of account(s) (having made consistent payments for 6 months naturally isn't going to look as good as having done so for 5 years)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Every accusation is projection once again

[–] [email protected] 166 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Brought to you by the party of:

  • small government
  • personal freedoms
  • states’ rights
  • less spending
  • free speech
  • religious liberty
[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't bother. Hypocrisy is the gas, and cognitive dissonance the oil that power Conservatism.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

And racism, anger and fear are the highly reactive napalm that drives their dumpster fire of a train wreck

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