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posted ago by RedDuck +21 / -0

I know people are all over the map on this but I firmly believe, based on the interactions I've had with them, that most cops are based. I don't know about the military.

So how is it that evil people are able to take control of organizations like the military and the police force, and get them to do things that 95% of the people who make up the force don't want to do? It is only because people do not know how much support they really have, they do not know how many people think the same way, and even if they do suspect that most people think the same way, they don't trust them to have their back if they decide to be the first one to make a move against their superiors.

So I have a simple idea. Somebody public, somebody that is widely trusted disseminates an app for all police officers to sign up for if they want, and with complete confidentiality. You have someone check that they are who they say they are when they sign up for it but everything you do on the app is encrypted.

And the whole purpose of the app is to ask questions: do you want to Stand Down against black lives matter? And if 95% have the officers say hell no let's move then everybody moves, there's even a countdown for when it happens so that everyone does it at the same time.

Or maybe it's: do you want to go house-to-house imprisoning our fellow citizens?

You get the idea. All authority of the kind that tyrants wield comes from the fact that people cannot communicate their willingness to simultaneously defy the tyrant. But now the technology exists to end that. Somebody's just got to realize it

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Cue_Cumber 3 points ago +3 / -0

They say that, during the Holocaust, when the people were shoved into Internment camps, if they'd rushed the gates they would've easily overwhelmed the guards. BUT they never did for the simple fact the first ones were going to be mowed down. Understandably, no one wanted to be first, thus no one went at all, and so almost everyone died, anyway. I'm not going to pretend I'd have gone first.

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philandy 2 points ago +2 / -0

That level of protection that's needed, that goes beyond anon, is decentralization.

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ginoB 1 point ago +1 / -0

Military is based. 1 out of the entire NG has opened himself up to treason

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philandy 1 point ago +1 / -0

It may be possible on the hinternet, repeated over fiber, which would be a bitch to jam.

These cops and soldiers need to understand that they foundationally have an inalienable right to bear arms as you're asking.

Does it hold up in the district?

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Unapologist 0 points ago +1 / -1

The flipside of that coin is also true. Technology can compel compliance. When Google wants to stop people from communicating their willingness to simultaneously defy the tyrant, they just search through your phone logs remotely to find out what button you pushed, and do whatever they like from bricking your phone to deplatforming you to getting you Epsteined.