The Senate just voted to let the government keep surveilling your online life without a warrant

I think the best part of all this happening is that Americans are no longer spewing that “land of the free” and “leader of the free world” rhetoric.

Everything they have today has been acquired through violence and abuse of other nations people and now Americans are personally seeing how their country treats others.

I know there are millions of innocent Americans caught up in all of this with zero support from their leaders, but millions of people have seen much worse from your government. From infected blankets through to drone strikes and nuclear bombs, your history is paved with the corpses of the innocent.

You are now seeing the America the world has known for decades. I hope you use this election year to understand the pain your government has caused the world and fix it before you end up on the wrong side of history. For all our sakes, you need to fix this now. I don’t want to watch my family die because some random nation has Stockholm Syndrome for its society that only functions by exploiting the vulnerable.

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