Genflag wrote: “You lost it first by strawmaning the actual arguments of the people you were responding to, which you did before I even chimmed in”
How can I be strawmaning when all I did was quote someone else?
People are making actual arguments based on events that have already transpired over the last decade, which you insist on referring to them ‘hypotheticals’.
When a ‘hypothetical’ happens in real life, it ceases to be a hypothetical.
Again, some of us have a memory that last longer than six minutes.
Joe Biden was president, and nearly every federal government agency, and many state ones, were openly targeting Conservative, the FBI labeled parents and Catholics potential terrorist, Covid lock downs, climate ‘emergencies’, etc., etc...
If you really believe that no Leftist will ever gain political power in America again and whatever government retains power in that effective one-party state couldn't possibly ever turn full public surveillance against its citizenry on a whim, I could understand how you might support Flock style systems.
But considering that belief would take incredible mental impairment or a secret desire for that outcome, I can't.
Either way go flock yourself.