There's a lot I want to say, but I haven't got time for all of it. Most of you who regularly read this forum already know where I stand on the U.S. President's pathetic if not seditious attempts to subvert a free and fair election.
But what I want to say is: members of Congress are not going to forget about what happened yesterday. In the coming months, policymakers and the public will learn more about the mob of domestic terrorists who attempted to take over the U.S. legislature. They will realize that much of the planning took place on major social media sites like Facebook, on alt-tech sites like Gab and Parler, on forums like .win, and on closed communication channels such as Discord and Telegram.
See, the consequences of terrorism go beyond its immediate casualties; it creates political pressure to restrict civil liberties and privacy rights. Over the next months and years, law enforcement and the intelligence community will have an expanded presence in the online world. The Capitol riot has given the federal bureaucracy an increased mandate to surveil online activity and to question domestic ideological extremists. This is not new. In the post-9/11 era, the securocrats have grown rapidly in size, scope, and budget. But this is yet another major opportunity for them to ask for a larger budget -- the FBI's National Security Branch, the DHS' fusion centres, et cetera. And given that numerous lawmakers on both sides of the aisle feared for their own personal safety, they will probably get it in the next appropriations cycle.
Some of you are wondering whether incels will be swept up in the investigative dragnet. Maybe, maybe not. But it reminds me of this report last year by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which argued for increased online surveillance of incels, amongst other groups:
Some of you will undoubtedly claim (as you already have) that the Biden administration will initiate a "crackdown" of incels and perhaps this forum. I believe that to do so is misguided and reflects a lack of nuance -- in a pluralist democracy, there are numerous inputs in the policy process beyond the executive. One should not let their emotions over the culture war form a basis for fear-mongering. There will not be concentration camps or an immediate end to freedom of speech, due process, and judicial review. There is, however, only the slow grind of the bureaucratic state -- a grind that has only grown louder thanks to the retarded MAGA apes.
TL;DR: there will probably be more lurking glownigs here
But what I want to say is: members of Congress are not going to forget about what happened yesterday. In the coming months, policymakers and the public will learn more about the mob of domestic terrorists who attempted to take over the U.S. legislature. They will realize that much of the planning took place on major social media sites like Facebook, on alt-tech sites like Gab and Parler, on forums like .win, and on closed communication channels such as Discord and Telegram.
See, the consequences of terrorism go beyond its immediate casualties; it creates political pressure to restrict civil liberties and privacy rights. Over the next months and years, law enforcement and the intelligence community will have an expanded presence in the online world. The Capitol riot has given the federal bureaucracy an increased mandate to surveil online activity and to question domestic ideological extremists. This is not new. In the post-9/11 era, the securocrats have grown rapidly in size, scope, and budget. But this is yet another major opportunity for them to ask for a larger budget -- the FBI's National Security Branch, the DHS' fusion centres, et cetera. And given that numerous lawmakers on both sides of the aisle feared for their own personal safety, they will probably get it in the next appropriations cycle.
Some of you are wondering whether incels will be swept up in the investigative dragnet. Maybe, maybe not. But it reminds me of this report last year by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which argued for increased online surveillance of incels, amongst other groups:
Some of you will undoubtedly claim (as you already have) that the Biden administration will initiate a "crackdown" of incels and perhaps this forum. I believe that to do so is misguided and reflects a lack of nuance -- in a pluralist democracy, there are numerous inputs in the policy process beyond the executive. One should not let their emotions over the culture war form a basis for fear-mongering. There will not be concentration camps or an immediate end to freedom of speech, due process, and judicial review. There is, however, only the slow grind of the bureaucratic state -- a grind that has only grown louder thanks to the retarded MAGA apes.
TL;DR: there will probably be more lurking glownigs here
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