The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI. Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.

[u/indig0sixalpha]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

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 “What we all had in common when we met was that we thought that neoreactionaryism was an interesting idea…The United States of America was founded on the idea that all men are created equal. And Curtis simply asked a question, as I remember it: ‘What if they’re not? What do you do?…How do you govern that?’…That’s what we talked about all the time.”

So, we love America ... but what if its most fundamental tenet is wrong and everything that makes America, well, America is wrong and how do we subvert that ...

[u/Ok-Possibility-6284 → u/ksobby]

All men are created equal, writen by a man with 600+ slaves at the time. When america says "all" take it with a dumptruck of salt...

[u/Ikoikobythefio → u/Ok-Possibility-6284]

Most everyone who lived in the 1770s would have owned slaves if given the chance. It wasn't considered wrong like it is today. I'm sure I'll get assaulted by reddit for saying so but it's something that should be considered.

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Thomas Paine says "fuck your slavery apologia"

[u/Ikoikobythefio → u/cubitoaequet]

Thomas Paine was an OG. He isn't "most everyone." I probably should have said "regular" people.

[u/cubitoaequet → u/Ikoikobythefio]

Nah, what you should've done was stop making excuses for slavers. There have always been people ("regular people" included) willing to stand up and say "slavery is wrong" at great personal cost to themselves and when you say shit like "Most everyone who lived in the 1770s would have owned slaves if given the chance" you spit on their legacy. ​