We all go nuts when, say Target, announces that our credit information has been breached.

If I lived near D.C. I would be protesting every day. There are so many things to protests, and so many agencies to focus on.

raise my profile. I want to be considered a threat. If we are all considered a threat, they will have to find some way to either directly surveil us, expose themselves by trying to deny employment, or pass the information on to less secure agencies such as local police forces. All of those will be too costly, and take too many resources. Right now they think they can cherrypick a few bad apples, but we all need to be those bad apples. During the George Bush administration, they sent undercover police officers to a meeting of peace activists and not one of them was less than 65. Watch the movie "The Trial of the Chicago 7". They had a FBI agent, a Illinois state police officer and a Chicago police officer dedicated to attending their meetings.
Look, we are never going to have an impact on 12.5% who are hard core nutcases, or the 50 percent who won't vote if they realized that their life DOES depend on it, or the 50% who are "undecided" (WTF is there to be 'undecided' about at this point). But I still don't believe that they can incarcerate 12.5% of us who despise Trump and anyone who is immoral enough to stand up with an "R" next to their name. George Bush's administration was creating an enemies list, starting with folks in the media they consider "hostile". Someone created a website so the rest of us could add our names also.
Hey fuckers at Palantir. I'll tell you everything up front if you want it. By now you know I don't own guns, but remember knives and swords don't make a sound and I'm not afraid of the dark. I'm almost out of reasons to have to fit in, and as Janice says "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose". And while I have your attention, I think you should sit down and watch the movie "A Few Good Men". I don't know what you think you are "saving". You may save the States as a place, as an institution, but the ideal that was set forth in the Declaration of Independence is dying with every stroke of your keyboard. Do you have the guts to walk away? Why do you have to use so much force to try to keep us under control? What are you afraid of? Who are you really protecting? Musk? Trump? the Koch brothers? You are just as disposable to them as I am. Your family is just as worthless to them as mine is. A polluted planet won't have an oasis for your grandchildren anymore than it will for mine. A fascist state that tries to crush the soul of it's citizens will crush you progeny just as it will crush mine. I have a hope and a future, you don't.