Incase the article gets disappeared: https://nonogra.ph/us-police-now-armed-with-israeli-spy-vans...
Case in point, pushing 100 upvotes but off the front page, when some random Wired blogspam stay on the front page for half a day with a quarter of votes and comments.
That was well-over a decade ago. Cannot even imagine how much more control/eavesdropping/automation the current leadership maintains, quasi-"legally" (by statute; we started re-defining wordmeanings centuries ago). I'll "stay in your lane," and thank you Dear Leaders, for freedumb.
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All to say: you're not wrong, but it's Whoever's quest for insatiability that makes them so unpredictable. Our technochomocracy thrives within, colorless.
"Because they can."