Re: Musk et al.

On Sun, 17 Feb 2025, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

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.
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* - or however many it is these days.

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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. ;)

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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!
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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.

This is the truth! I lost all hope in humanity after corona. Haven't voted since, since all countries on the planet, more or less, shat on all human rights, laws and protection in unison, and never even acknowledged it. So I'm out of the democracy circus for the moment.
You can join my new radical party if you want! Welcome to the Peoples Libertarian Liberation Front! Get one free AR-15 upon joining! ;)

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

Red, rural and bible-thumping US. It is my belief, that if you stick to rural areas in the US, the surveillance will be a minimum. Other areas I've considered are switzerland (the southern italien part), liechtenstein, the channel islands, the isle of man.
If you are of a socialist bent, iceland could also be a small, more or less forgotten place, in the middle of nowhere. =)