The Capytistas, a secretive group claiming more than $1.2 million in backing, started with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. Members argue that those who buy political power deserve the scrutiny they’ll impose.

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    Good. The drive-thrus are getting too expensive and it’s time to finally eat the nicely marbled rich! Now we can all swing by for a nosh! /s

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      On the silver lining side, a lot of people in recent months have experienced the fluidity of the definition of terrorism and maybe, just maybe, will keep that in mind when they hear it used to otherise the next lot.

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      I support more public surveillance (although I don’t know whether or not Flock specifically does a good job of it) but I recognize that controversial famous people are in fact in a lot more danger from lunatics than the average person is, and here, despite the denial by the people intending to do this, the intent is clearly to increase that danger.

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        They have been engaging in violence against us. That is the only reason they are in danger.

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        Why do you support more public surveillance? I am asking this in good faith and will not even attempt to argue against your position. I just don’t think I have ever seen a person outside of a scripted event say those words in that order and my curiosity is overpowering.

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          I don’t see the connection between public surveillance and oppression that most other people here apparently see. With all other things equal, I’d rather not have the government know where I drive, simply because I enjoy having privacy in that domain for its own sake. However, I’m not afraid that the government will use this information to oppress me. (An oppressive government can oppress me whether or not I’ve actually done anything illegal, so the surveillance doesn’t make much difference.) And in the absence of that concern about oppression, I value the potential to reduce crime more than I value my privacy while in public (something of a contradiction in terms).

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        What’s wrong with increasing danger for enemies?

        Enemies have a moral obligation to kill one another. Conservative oligarchs are doing everything they can to get rich from the oppression and death of the public. They are killing the public. The public should defend itself from its enemy.

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          Let check back here in say…… three months and compare notes. You game?

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                “Do something silly and irrelevant to contest me else you’re an idiot”

                The maturity is overflowing from your chad body, truly a champion of humanity standing before us.

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                  Silly and irrelevant. Just coming back to here in a few weeks is silly and irrelevant??

                  Man you kids are fucking lazy.

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                Just because you’re willing to spend an unusual amount of effort defending your position, that doesn’t make it correct.

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                  Returning here to see if I’m right after time passes is not an unusual amount of effort, though I can see how that might be so for people nowadays.

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      It’s easier to claim action by saying you will do it and then doing it than it is by doing it and claiming it was you.

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    But they won’t. There’s one thing. “Hacktivists” are good at… and that is talk. Remember all the nothing anonymous did?

    It’s all a bullshit show for notoriety. It’s always a bullshit show for notoriety.

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        No. I’m just old enough to remember all the losers in the past that announce dumb shit just like this and never follow through. You might have been playing with your toys then and weren’t concerned with it.

        Ask your parents.

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      I agree with you about anonymous. They have been a huge let down. A lot of talk and no results. But you have been quite an asshole to other innocent Lemmy users without any reason. So I must downvote your comment. Stop being a prick.

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      You and I don’t know what the hell Anonymous is doing undner the radar. Hell for all we know they could already have substantial blackmail for these 1% fucks and they may be using it for our or their benefit already.

      Point is we can’t know.

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        LMAO… so, when they said they were going to release files and info and all sorts of other shit- and then didn’t, that’s just them being mysterious and we shouldn’t question it?

        This is how religions cults are born.

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          Maybe they got what they wanted and that’s why they didn’t release them… You know, the clear and logical thing… Not everything addressed to you is meant for you - is one of the first things you learn in politics…