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  • There is simply no way to hide your attendance at a protest. Yes, of course don’t trust airplane mode. But if you upload video of any kind you will be connected to the event. Facial recognition will recognize you.

    Even if you hide your face you will still need to travel to the event somehow. Your vehicle will be recorded by traffic cams. If you don’t think the government will go full black mirror here and put everyone associated on a list you’re lying to yourself.

    The algorithm already knows your viewing habits. There is a statistical model of your behaviors and motivations extant on a server somewhere. The NSA absolutely has access to this data and more.

    The only way to be unconnected to a protest is to actually not engage in content and actually not care. By the time an algorithm is feeding you anti establishment imagery you’re already part of a group that is statistically likely to be supportive of anti government ideologies. In for a penny in for a pound.

    So whether you bring your phone or not is academic. You CAN be identified one way or another.


















  • This is the way rational people think. However. You have the “American dream” to contend with. The dream is NOT 3 kids and a house in the suburbs. The American dream is, and always has been, the desire to collect enough wealth that the rules no longer apply.

    This is why we have trump. This is why the republicans wave American flags and condone corruption. Half of the American population either is or fantasizes about the possibility of being untouchable. It’s fascism, yes, but it’s far deeper than that. The American dream is to live beyond governance; to have “fuck you” money.

    Trump isn’t the cancer. Trump is the tumor. The cancer is the pursuit of limitless success.