darkcalling

but I’m less clear on how they approach doing this to standard US citizens, so curious if you know?

No one knows. Not even they themselves know. It's being actively developed and the policy and envelope actively and steadily pushed forward further and further. What the situation is now probably won't be what the situation is in 12 months.

The thing is as a US citizen they cannot deny you re-entry to the country (if you're non-white I wouldn't be positive they wouldn't try in the future to some amount of such people to detain and possibly deport them or something but if you're a citizen by birth at least that's a lot more difficult even then). They cannot hold you without charging you for more than I think 48-72 hours, one of those though I think unfortunately that might be guidance within the agency rather than law so they could possibly in future push and stretch that period out but at that point we may be through the looking glass entirely. They can take your stuff and resisting them by refusing to unlock your phone will be noted and probably result in future searches and enhanced scrutiny but then again may not.

In most cases in the past (things are changing obviously so who knows where this goes) refusing to unlock your phone as a citizen resulted in detention for a few hours which was considered punishment enough as by then you'd miss your flight and have lost hundreds or thousands of dollars. There were exceptions of course like whistleblower journalists, genuine criminals like pedophiles, etc.

If it's just those airport security TSA people they probably won't do a thorough search and most likely will just briefly look through your photos and apps including messenger apps and emails for maybe 5 minutes looking for super obvious crimes in front of you BUT if they take it to another room or its CBP or ICE they might try and use a graykey or other hacking device on it to download the contents or even in theory install malware as well. You have no way of knowing what direction the search will go once you hand over your unlocked phone so that's the problem and you can't exactly demand it back. They could start out searching it in front of you casually and take it out of sight to a back room with a hacking device and you'd be powerless to do anything about it.

One trick that MIGHT work (be careful, lying to these people could be a crime, I am not a lawyer, check with a lawyer) is saying it's a business phone. If your trip is for business this holds more weight and in most cases they'll give up because companies have rights to keep secrets that the government respects a lot more than the rights of their disposable proles. This works better for laptops as phones they might still assume you can unlock in order to use it. This won't work if you're specifically targeted.

Make a plan before you travel. Are you okay resisting them and accepting the consequences? How far will you resist? Will you really accept missing your flight? Will you accept missing your flight and being detained for 48 hours? Will you accept that plus them confiscating your phone? If you decide you might bend the knee if detained then decide what you need to do to minimize harm like deleting all your social media and chat apps off your phone BEFORE traveling (to reinstall on the other side) so that you're comfortable being able to unlock your phone and hand it over. Be warned some encrypted chat apps won't back-up their messages, look into the specifics of each one. The best thing to do is of course erase your phone before traveling and restore on the other side or when you get back home from back-ups. Have an explanation ready for why your phone is blank though, you had a problem with it for example and had to reset it. Try and create some activity on it so it looks a little lived in.

Cash in an envelope without a return address? Extra paranoid drop it in a city/neighborhood mail box collection point rather than from your home. Just make clear on the inside that it's a donation.

Other than that there's crypto with CERTAIN currencies IF they accept it and IF you use non-KYC means of acquiring it which is itself a whole pain in the ass and journey.

There's also buying a gift credit card for cash at a grocery some distance from your home that you don't normally frequent, registering it under a false name and using that though you'll be paying $5-$6 to the CC company as a fee for the privilege and some services may not accept those.

without anyone questioning why they don't use the broad, sweeping powers exercised by Trump to do Literally Anything Good.

"We must protect and rebuild the institutions and we cannot do that by breaking more rules like our adversaries" is what they'll say once they get into power. Before they get into power all kinds of vague promises of justice and doing this and that. But darn it the Parliamentarian will rule against them and they refuse to be just like the enemy they fight in effectively getting things done. They're going to set an example of their ideals!

The question I have is, how long until these services begin to capitulate to the state and down rank or shadow-ban these kinds of broadcasts?

Immediately the moment someone fires a gun back at and kills one of these feds. They'll say that they caused the death and are putting other lives at risk and threaten them heavy-handedly and they'll all fold like cards or be targeted by other elements of the state. Some will obviously fold far before that.

Not specifically environmentalism as a whole but taking too much care, enacting those bad government regulations which hurt businesses, that type of thing. I suppose it's because my parents had money issues so they adopted certain environmentalist stances because they were cheap. Don't use too much of things because they cost money but that doesn't sound great or make you feel good so they say oh for the environment, don't use too much for the environment (but they'd burn down 10 acres of rain forest in a heartbeat to save $5).

It was a personal responsibility issue and good Christians™ had a responsibility to be stewards BUT also because of the Genesis "dominion" clause it means we have a right and almost a duty to exploit nature, animals, etc as god has given them to us for our use and thus using them is not defiling them and this world is disposable anyways as god is going to rapture the faithful and destroy it any day now™ so it's fine to trash it a bit because we'll be moving onto some place better. So it was kind of mixed messaging but it came down to the EPA was bad, government was bad, man was given charge of this for a reason, yes some people were bad and irresponsible and good Christians™ had a duty to give at least a moment's thought about the more egregious environmental crimes but could do most of them anyways especially if they saved money.

That dominion clause does a lot of heavy lifting for a lot of garbage opinions but it's a pretty strong clause so I wouldn't say they're stretching it on a textual basis just that the whole thing is way past its best by date and should have been discarded oh many centuries ago.

And get the technical knowledge stolen by Mossad given how deeply infiltrated and compromised Iran is? I wouldn't think so.

Russia doesn't have a ton of production capacity and last I checked s-400 systems are very expensive, India bought some and they're going to be delivered in future for example and given how much force the west would likely hit Iran with they'd need a lot of them to prevent them being overwhelmed and destroyed by drone and cruise missile volleys. It would be as much an opportunity for the west to gather technical data as either of those powers.

Another problem is as we've seen the zionists are firing munitions from outside of Iran's borders to clear the way. Iranians don't want to engage them in the airspace outside their borders as it risks bringing another country actively into the war against them and also don't have good radar visibility which increases the chance of these systems just being killed without doing much good.

China already got to test their systems with the Pakistan vs India situation I believe. Russia has already tested them against Ukraine.

Neither power seems particularly interested in enraging the US by sticking their neck out here. Both go out of their way to kick the can down the road and bide their time and strength. Russia is full of capitalist liberals who genuinely want to find a way back to some sort of compromise between full NATO membership and the reality that the US and NATO will seek to destroy them because they're not sharing Europe or central Asia and control of those or other parts of the world with Russian bourgeoisie. They want at the very least to PLAY Trump into not escalating in Ukraine and not slapping on more sanctions for as long as possible by not doing anything that would cause him to walk away from negotiations as like it or not they can't win Ukraine decisively in the way they want that doesn't end in a smoldering conflict that keeps flaring up without a negotiated solution and if Trump walks away they fear years more of fighting Ukraine in a drawn out war deep into central and eastern Ukraine at great cost and damage to their economy as there are like it or not problems Russia is experiencing from this conflict and it can't keep this footing forever in a capitalist mode of production. They were able to do a deal with the DPRK because it's already off the chessboard for the US given the DPRK has nukes so it didn't matter to the US that Russia agreed to defend them as it doesn't change a strategic calculus nor is the DPRK near as important to global control as Iran. China has its own reasons as in basically biding its time to build up its own military and because it still hasn't resolved Taiwan and still needs the US economically (which is why they're willing to do deals with Trump and restore access to critical minerals despite some of them being bound to be used in weapons that are likely to be used on China within a decade).

Neither has had a break out moment showing a turn towards outright hostility towards the US which this would be perceived as and both seem to accept the US ruled order of the world. For example despite the staggering sanctions on Russia they haven't moved to destroy dollar hegemony because they don't want to anger the US and Trump and because they believe if they don't they'll get their stolen $300 billion dollars back held by the west.

A lot of good that did Syria in the end. Or Hezbollah. It's cope.

This stuff is why I say don't count the US out or laugh at the idea of its plan of encircling, blockading, and decoupling from China.

It's "moderate rebel" proxies and terrorist groups it supports to destabilize regions including markets for consuming goods as well as raw minerals (both of which China needs) have been wildly successful for many decades and I see no Chinese counter to that at present. Russia is doing slightly more to counter that but only barely and it's more a taking the edge off thing as we saw with Syria where Assad eventually fell anyways because Russia wouldn't commit the necessary level of support. Frankly the US can afford to do these things in 12 places at once while Russia can't afford to counter them in even a third.

For every AES (Sahel) that tries to throw off the shackles of neo-colonialism and succeeds for a time (how long is anyone's guess) there are a dozen examples of countries the US successfully suppresses, color revolutions, coups, destabilizes, debt-traps, installs compradors in, etc.

China has an uphill fight and I'm increasingly doubtful the US goes without a world war against it. Even proxies that don't "win" their war like Ukraine do provide benefits for the west, arm sales, knowledge on cutting edge enemy tactics and weaponry, experience, and battle-hardened "moderate rebels" which leave the battlefield at the end or in Ukraine's case even before the end to directly serve in the intelligence agencies or proxies of those agencies around the world. We've already seen that with Ukraine bragging about countering Russia's anti-colonial Wagner group helping the Sahel states and that's the tip of the iceberg.

The US is stoking a hundred fires and has means to turn many of them on short notice into an inferno. Even if they can't they just keep stoking it and burning and they still win by default by denying China new markets and resources while already controlling the old existing markets and resources.

There are going to be a hundred color revolutions, palace coups, moderate rebels taking down or throwing a nation into instability, compradors turning around to betray and sell their nation out, etc that are going to be popping up and going off against China and Russia from Africa to central Asia in the next 15 years as the US fights like hell to enact the project for a new American century.

I do think 10 years is quite excessive but I also think western media would lie about that so I'm going to assume that with good behavior and reform they'd probably actually be out in much less than half that.

Secondly I don't presume that this was per se special punishment because of the orientation, non-hetero nature of the works and that the law provides for the same for straight works. I admit there are likely problems with selective enforcement as with any law like this that runs into existing societal biases and prejudices so I think that would be another argument in favor of leniency but again I don't really believe that sentencing is necessarily accurate or the whole story.

Thirdly we don't know all the details about the ages of the characters or any aggravating factors about the content or the nature of payments or whatever.

Such a good chant. Going to have to look into his music now.

Also more seriously, this guy is a hero and braver than the troops. He's put himself at risk against the entire zionist propaganda apparatus, against the British state which has already shown a willingness to criminalize and prosecute musicians, something he knew before going on given who followed him.

Oh so not satisfied with the rich Epstein circles of mutual blackmail for the western elite that provide him with UA teenagers to SA he is now saying we should legalize the teenagers so the blackmail circles have to provide him with pre-pubescents instead. That is the way I am reading this. That or he has grown very tired of the company he has to be in at those Eyes Wide Shut style events.