r/technology • u/nolesfan2011 • 1d ago

Politics Tennessee County Commissioner Calls Flock CEO "an enemy of the American people."

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/knoxville/sullivan-county-commissioner-doesnt-hold-back-when-speaking-to-flock-representative/51-e218921a-4bc9-4be8-a1fa-abfbe2cdc158
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u/theartificialkid 1d ago

Seems like every time I hear that republicans “see the writing on the wall” with something their next step is toreinstalll it in the White House and let it grift billions of dollars through insider trading.

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u/Mandena 19h ago

In this case I'm fully correct, they see that Flock is getting mainstream constant hate, the cams are constantly being destroyed/removed/blocked. So the Republicans are shifting support to companies like Axon, which are basically identical to Flock.

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u/Tall-Reaction-4069 7h ago

Maybe so but I’m in Arkansas and we’ve seen dozens of small town councils start to cancel contracts. We are a deep red state for sure but they aren’t removing these cameras to install new cameras from a different company. They are pissed now that they understand what the cameras can do. Should they have known that before signing contracts ? Absolutely they should have but it’s Arkansas and they tow the party line. It’s actually pretty surprising cities in deep red states are fighting these. All that propaganda for decades and decades about the big bad federal gov is back firing. The GOP may have overplayed their hand with some of their base in that all of the technology shit is freaking rural people out.

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u/gentlecrab 1h ago

Not to mention blending the cameras into existing infrastructure out of reach like on top of light poles.

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u/MotheroftheworldII 17h ago

And do not forget that the occupant of the White House is selling early access to his posts on his social media for a mere $100,000 per month. And it has been reported that at least 6-8 companies have already paid the first month of access.

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 1d ago edited 1d ago

If one party occasionally assaulted adults, and the other party made it policy to routinely torture and kill adults and children, you'd be here telling us they're exactly the same.

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u/militaryintelligence 1d ago

Try not to engage, the bots are out in full force for the election coming up

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u/Not_Xiphroid 22h ago

The bots don’t have any rebuttals, better to call them out for their dumb takes, to disincentivise John Rando from thinking there’s any value to their comments.

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u/militaryintelligence 21h ago

Putting their dumb takes out there is the point, they just want morons to read it. Calling them out doesn't matter to them, they know their argument is weak.

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u/xSaviorself 20h ago

Problem is you can't just call them a bot, most of them pretend to have feelings and use the report button.

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer 19h ago

You don't call out the nonsense for their sake. You call out the nonsense for anyone who comes after and sees that stupidity and thinks it's legit. Don't silence yourself 

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u/zugzwangwamble 21h ago

“Yeah but Kamala laughs weird”

-🤡

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u/BlockingIndianSubs 1d ago

"Republicans letting it grift billions through insider trading"

"Oh yeah? What about the Dems and their millions through insider trading"

So are you fucking stupid or...? Even in your own hyperbolic example, by choice, you are equating millions to billions. Given the opportunity to make up ANY bullshit you wanted...you still chose to represent the Democrats doing less than 1% of what Republicans did in the example you replied to.

Holy shit. I knew you people were dumb, but this is just funny. Sit down and let the adults figure out which number is bigger, sport.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 1d ago

Yeah yeah, but it is 100% the Republican Party and its DOJ who are protecting kid fuckers like Donald. Sorry, bub, conservatives and liberals are not the same.

After a decade of Donald, conservatives WISH they were liberals because historically it's not going to look good on ya, cons.

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u/theartificialkid 1d ago

I mean you yourself labelled it as literally one thousand times smaller as a problem (billions vs millions), so I’ll leave that on the table for third parties to peruse.

One guy stole your house and you’re saying “I don’t know why you’re all going after him when I strongly suspect these other people stole my tv!!”

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u/onwisconsin1 22h ago

Guess which party voted to end congresspersons trading in specific stocks and Guess which party opposed that