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Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Ben Bartee

I am certain that Go-ogle is strongly linked to intelligence agencies.

I went to a conference and saw their custom-"tin" processors and saw how advertising is similar to mass spying and thought there's no way they just appeared like that!

Then they changed their name to Alphabet (like their corporate friend Intel) to make sure there's no doubt.

So to get back on point they're not just partisan political activists! Who knows just how bad things are behind the most opaque bureaucracy of the establishment defence (oddly called intelligence) agencies?

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yeah i didn't mean to imply they are exclusively Democrat partisans. Their allegiances to the Deep State go much deeper

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All US big tech has DARPA backing.. When one thinks back to post-war Japan or Korea and the establishment of the Keiritsu and Chae-bol respectively, you can bet your reserve currency bottom dollar that the forerunners to that were there too. Same playbook.

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I wonder how often and how hard domestic competition was nobbled to unfairly favour these fronts for the surveillance state.

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This falls under the ‘nothing new under the sun’ rule.

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They don't like it up 'em, Mr. Mannering...

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Had to cheat and go to Wikipedia for that reference. A signature line from Lance Corporal Jack Jones, the septuagenarian corporal in the UK's Home Guard during WWII in the BBC sitcom "Dad's Army." Often delivered to Captain "Mainwairing." And now I am far, far away from my childhood exposure to Sapphire & Steel (RIP David McCallum) and Blake's 7.

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How wonderful would it be to successfully sue Alphabet, along with their co-conspirators, forcing them to distribute their ill got gains to those they have harmed?

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