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people are in fact,

>> tracking locations of flock cameras (https://deflock.org/)

>> destroying/removing them (https://flockstats.org/)

>> litigating their use (https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out)

What specific response from the general public would you like that it's arguably already happening?

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> destroying/removing them (https://flockstats.org/)

Destroying 450 out of 130,000, ie 0.3%, is not sufficient to resist the imposition of a surveillance state. Americans pretty clearly do not care for freedom as much as they yap about.

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Voting out those representatives that allowed flock cameras in their cities.
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it seems that single issue voters are rare, and that political access is monopolized by the already powerful
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> Am I missing something?

Just the part where you're supposed to be doing something about it, otherwise don't you think it's a bit hypocritical to call out others for doing the same thing?

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This happened in Canada
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"Northern China"
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“51st state”
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Said the mad man
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Because "1984" is one of those books that people pretend to have read so that they can use the word "Orwellian" to talk about surveillance they personally don't like while excusing the sort that's convenient or economically expedient for them.

(For what it's worth I haven't read ~half of the books on my shelf. "Simulacra and Simulation" is mocking me from across the room)

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1984 is a tiny paperback that's very accessible and probably takes a couple hours to read?
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It’s about 330 pages and average reader reads one page/minute, so 6.5 hours, on average
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It's not like 1984 has a feel-good ending that's like "yes, fight the power, you will be successful and not ruin your own life quixotically."

I do think there is value in fighting the power... but 1984 is not a book that depicts such a choice working out well.

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People aren't pretending, they just like the word.
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I drove past one with a literal American flag planted on it today so maybe we are taking back the Homeland alas?

It was a beautiful thing.

The state ordered the cameras removed but they left the posts, someone stuck a flag inside the old post.

https://postimg.cc/q6vSQ01V

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> USA laughed at China when they did the same

Why invoke China? The UK did this long before China.

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The scenario is distinctly different: in one scenario the government had "control" over it and in the other a private corporation has "control".
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> Am I missing something?

Yes you missed something big. A little too excited to get in the America dig, didn’t even bother reading the article to realize it happened in Canada.

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ends up a good % of the US population is in favor of fascism. Same reason we elected orange mango man, same reason ICE is running around shooting people and imprisoning America citizens.
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Criticism of bad government policy is never racist.
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