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		pessimizer on Oct 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&... Leaders under more authoritarian governments don't have to answer to rando voters. They only have to answer to their country's elites, who support what they're doing.

boomboomsubban on Oct 26, 2021 [–]

The intelligence agencies don't answer to voters either, they only answer to the countries elite who they've been shown to spy on.

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