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spencerflem  ·  282 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Officials sound alarm about new Russian ‘space threat’

article mentioned what I had heard as well - that the govt has known about this for a while, and has been saving it for a good PR opportunity, in this case as an excuse to keep warrantless surveillance





kleinbl00  ·  282 days ago  ·  link  ·  

702 survived Snowden. It's adorable that journalists think that shit has a snowball's chance of going anywhere in this political climate.

spencerflem  ·  282 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree with you, its silly to even hope

BUT: Somehow the ultra far right republicans at least claim to be against it, since its a tool of the deep state that the FBI really likes and they want to piss off the FBI. So I've been clinging to that even tho realistically it's never going to happen, and its funny in a sort of horseshoe theory way to think about the nutjobs accidentally being the only people in congress on my side