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Unfortunately you have made it about politics, so half the people won't listen to you, and half will agree without understanding the problem of the situation.

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Brother on what planet is the customs and border agency of your government doing a warrantless search of your devices not political?

Surely you understand that making it about "Trump" implies you can fix it by voting, which you can't, because the laws were there under Democrat administrations too.

As soon as you say "Trump man bad" then the underlying discussion that needs to be had is lost.

It is obviously political, but the same practices happened under Biden and Obama. It is very clearly a both-sides issue, and I'm not sure how voting for dems is supposed to help.

He didn't say to vote for dems.

He said "current regime". He obviously means the previous regime didn't do this (as if Snowden didn't happen under Obama).

Not OP, but I wouldn't so sure to read that intent into it. There are plenty of people on the left that are critical of the dems. We can both be critical of this practice under Obama as well as under Trump. Voting out incumbents, to me, would mean getting rid of all the officials that have been complacent in this practice, on both sides.

I'm definitely seeing a lot more politics on here lately. I still come here after all these years to get a break from politics.

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