People are surrendering privacy rights every day: alexa, the battle for the internet, accepting NSA surveillance, etc. It's awful

My eighty year-old parents have borrowed my car since April so they can drive for DoorDash, knowing full well if they can't work this country will do nothing to help them and they'll end up homeless.

Yay capitalism.

The goal is not to avoid the watch lists. The goal is to be on so many that they become useless.

I started thinking my internet comms would get me on a list during W’s term. My political leanings have only traveled Left since then. I’m not going to be on one of the first lists: that honor goes to Trans people, then some others, but I’ll be on one of the “when we get around to it” lists.

But the level of self-censorship and the degree of paranoia (nobody cares about drugs unless you’ve got them or you’re talking about distribution) is concerning. Maybe try to find out why he cares that much. I agree with a sibling comment about possible mental health issues to assess. I was early twenties when my bipolar was diagnosed.

Irrational paranoid urges might be signs of mental health issues. Does your family have any history of paranoid schizophrenia? Onset tends to happen to men in their late 20s/early 30s, but everyone is different.

Assuming this is the US, I doubt it's that easy to land on any sort of watchlist. Unfortunately, paranoia doesn't require any actual hard evidence.

I have a coworker at a large shipyard who's an insane MAGA moron. He believes all women will soon be fired, and all non-white people are going to be deported.

He's writing down people's personal information, license plates, and such. He's not even trying to be stealthy about it.

When packaging on food specifies that it has REAL ingredients , like REAL CHEESE and REAL HONEY.

We've gotten so good at producing fake, artificial flavors that we need to specify when our food is real.

Also new facial scanners at airports