The US will still surveil the troops and citizens. All this does is reduce the commercial attack surface for adversaries, privacy be damned.

maybe trickle-down privacy will be more successful than trickle-down economics. one can hope.

Trump has demonstrated repeatedly, emphatically, and publicly that he does not care about the troops, or at least certainly not injured/captured/killed ones. Or minorities. Or non-citizens fighting for the country. Or citizens with non-citizen spouses/fiancees/parents.

If they cared about the troops, they wouldn't send them on bullshit missions like whatever we're doing in Iran.

How much nuance is there really to explore in that topic if even longtime ICE agents are themselves decrying the current state of the agency, and rightfully blaming the current administration for opening the floodgates to any redneck who can read a job application

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

Well you're right, "goon" is a value judgement, but if someone's critical thinking extends no further than 'bad word therefore bad argument' then I'm not sure I could reach them in any case.

I mean, they are masked, right?

And they’ve been going around beating people and in a few cases killing them, like goons, right?

Just because terms can and have been used hyperbolically doesn’t mean that the same term cannot accurately describe other situations.

broad brushstroke guess; ICE