It's amazing how people self-brainwashed to do the work of KGB for free and on their own time. Gone are the days when government spooks steam opened the envelopes, trailed people on the street and roughed someone up or gathered Kompromat to intimidate them. Nowadays we are more happy to hack and doxx each other without anyone putting guns to our heads and roughing up unpopular speakers is very much a thing.
Now you might say that capitol rioters deserve it, but that's beside the point. Most of KGB work also involved not so nice individuals like terrorists and plane hijackers. The problem is that neither capitol rioters nor USSR plane hijackers were mainstream, but private and government spooks are.
If people were so concerned with the consequences of their actions they shouldn't have live streamed themselves. These people had to know what they were doing was wrong and I don't feel bad in the least about them being ratted out.
It's amazing how people self-brainwashed to do the work of KGB for free and on their own time.
This isn't Russia, Komrade. They're doing the work of the FBI, not the KGB or FSB or whatever they're calling themselves this week.
Now you might say that capitol rioters deserve it, but that's beside the point.
No, Ivan, it's wholly material. If they deserve it, it's not a witch hunt nor McCarthyism. It's defense of one's government, which one depends upon to survive. At least, the vast majority of people do.
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World's first private secret police (Score:2, Insightful)
It's amazing how people self-brainwashed to do the work of KGB for free and on their own time. Gone are the days when government spooks steam opened the envelopes, trailed people on the street and roughed someone up or gathered Kompromat to intimidate them. Nowadays we are more happy to hack and doxx each other without anyone putting guns to our heads and roughing up unpopular speakers is very much a thing.
Now you might say that capitol rioters deserve it, but that's beside the point. Most of KGB work also involved not so nice individuals like terrorists and plane hijackers. The problem is that neither capitol rioters nor USSR plane hijackers were mainstream, but private and government spooks are.
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If people were so concerned with the consequences of their actions they shouldn't have live streamed themselves. These people had to know what they were doing was wrong and I don't feel bad in the least about them being ratted out.
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It's amazing how people self-brainwashed to do the work of KGB for free and on their own time.
This isn't Russia, Komrade. They're doing the work of the FBI, not the KGB or FSB or whatever they're calling themselves this week.
Now you might say that capitol rioters deserve it, but that's beside the point.
No, Ivan, it's wholly material. If they deserve it, it's not a witch hunt nor McCarthyism. It's defense of one's government, which one depends upon to survive. At least, the vast majority of people do.