TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · edit-2 3 days ago

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 2 days ago

Aren’t guns supposed to be to fight tyrannical governments or something in the US? Where is that? I’ve been told by Americans that all the gun deaths were worth it in the case of what is currently happening there

0x0@lemmy.zip · 2 days ago

Watch these 3 in sequence, they’ll make a lot of sense out of the murican fascination with guns.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvxbZGjlv4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtxtuQxUz8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QbXTDuwSVkk

tomiant@piefed.social · edit-2 2 days ago

You misunderstood. The tyrannical government they talk about is democracy.

I wish I was joking.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · edit-2 2 days ago

Yeah, that’s all just bullshit. A thought-terminating cliche.

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

Ignore the Drumbeat of Doom, the NSA’s Call Records Program Didn’t Stop a Single Terrorist Attack | ACLU