• FartsWithAnAccent
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    1451 year ago

    Golly, that doesn’t sound very small government or individual freedom of them.

    • @[email protected]
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      You misunderstand, the Federal government should be small so it doesn’t get in the way of the state government doing whatever the hell it wants. Individual rights are a canard to get religious conservatives and 2A enthusiasts on board with dismantling federal protections so that state governments can oppress The Right PeopleTM. Never mind that religious conservatives and 2A enthusiasts are not oppressed and their revenge fantasies are founded on an astro-turfed victim complex.

    • Hot Saucerman
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      It’s a SubStack site which hosts a Judd Legum project called Popular Information.

      He was formerly the editor-in-chief at ThinkProgress.

      EDIT: Just to be clear, not being snarky, this is a super valid question to ask regarding the source.

    • @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      I had the same thought, so I put the article’s URL into Ground News: 6 sources talking about this story, with popular.info being labeled as “high factuality”.

      Pleasantly surprised, I guess.

  • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]
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    351 year ago

    Did they also strip the power of the state auditor to demand documents, like they did here in Iowa?

  • jerome
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    201 year ago

    this feels like something an election should decide

  • @Noice1
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    11 year ago

    deleted by creator

    • @[email protected]
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      You quote the first line in the article. Go read the rest.

      It’s fucking worse than a police force.

      In the event that Gov Ops searches a person’s home, these rules mean that the person 1) must keep the entry a secret, 2) cannot seek outside help (unless necessary for fulfilling the request, the law says), and 3) could face criminal charges if Gov Ops deems them uncooperative.

          • @[email protected]
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            Ruling class tightening its grip.

            They were successful in getting the working class to vote against their own interests since the late 60s.

            MKUltra was a success. They found out they couldn’t control people as easily with drugs, so they resorted to other means. i.e. pop culture and influencers.

          • @[email protected]
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            There are 3 Americans.

            • One who is “patriot” republican
            • One who is stoned on weed.
            • One who doesn’t give a shit about what the other two does.

            Only one of them votes.

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        171 year ago

        An important note from the article is that this committee has oversight over institutions who do business with the government, not just government employees. Received grant money, welp now Gov ops can take you down. Won’t be surprised to see it expand beyond institutions and start encompassing individuals, allowing them to take out receivers of social benefits

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          So those people don’t deserve full protections of the constitution, privacy laws, lawyers if their stuff gets searched, and should be arrested if they don’t comply…?

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          And how the "special oversight committee " only works for roughly half of the state government but can still cause people to be fired for not obliging to the Republican will?

          • @[email protected]
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            -131 year ago

            I hate to say it, man, but yeah, if you piss off the state government, and you work for them, they’re gonna fire you

            • @[email protected]
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              91 year ago

              From the article:

              But unlike other types of government watchdog groups, GovOps is partisan. Republicans dominate the body, and the group’s politics greatly influence the types of investigations it carries out. For example, Gov Ops launched an inquiry into diversity training programs at the University of North Carolina earlier this year.

              Do you not understand how dangerous it is to democracy to have a partisan police force? If not then I uge you to read about the start of WW2.

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                -131 year ago

                Every democracy has partisan oversight groups. I’ll get mad at their abuse, not their existence.

                • @[email protected]
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                  If you think republicans aren’t going to abuse a partisan police force then your concerns are void and you’re sleepwalking through life.

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                  Every democracy has oversight groups, or an ombudsman. It’s not partisan

                  Imagine a similar situation in a European country having several parties and one party wanting the state budget to fund their investigation of the government. That shit would never see the light of day because there’d always be a majority against it. This only exists in USA because of the two party politics.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 year ago

      Yeah it’s an oversight committee in the same way that the “Committee of Public Safety” was concerned with public well-being.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Calling a secret police force something other than a police force is literally the most basic aspect of a secret police force.

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        Typically a secret police force has jurisdiction over more people than government employees and contractors.