It’s already happening, unfortunately. I work medical field adjacent and our org now has an AI committee, approved by legal. Several of the members, while good providers, are completely tech illiterate and love chatgpt. They were chosen specifically because they’ll be AI yes men due to not actually understanding what LLMs are and the extreme negatives of using them in academia and the medical field.

Modern radio traffic is encrypted and those types of scanners don’t really work anymore. It’s a nice fantasy for keyboard warriors that they’re gonna “hack” or “jam” the radios and dismantle fed operations, but it’s just not realistic in the slightest. It’d be much more feasible (hypothetically, for the glowies in the room) to take a radio from someone in the field and monitor the traffic.

It wouldn’t work for long, because as dumb as cops are, they do have intelligent support staff behind them who plan for that and would just switch everyone to a different channel and/or disable the stolen one as soon as it was known a radio was compromised. Radio activity is also very easy for the government to track and any rando trying anything better be ready for a platoon to be all over their ass in about half the time they think they will.

Newsom has a history of using transphobic language and stances, has removed funding from LGBTQ+ organizations in California, has been spearheading the destruction of homeless camps without any alternatives for the people impacted, came out in support of Israel “defending itself”, and has hosted multiple right wing christo-nationalists on his podcast. When kirk was killed, he immediately posted in support of him and his family and said nothing about a school shooting that occurred on the same day. A few months ago on bluesky he casually posted about how after Trump deployed armed forces to CA, he’s since been using the NG himself to do drug interdiction operations within the state.

Gavin Newsom is an opportunist, simple as. He does not care about the working class or stopping fascism, just making sure he gets ahead himself. His interns might be memeing on Trump on Twitter to appease his base, but he’s been pushing moderate and right wing policies increasingly in response to the Trump regime gaining traction. He sees the writing on the wall and wants to position himself for upcoming elections as a good option for disenfranchised right wingers and centrists, and doesn’t care if he throws people on the left under the bus to do it.

Edit: Just to get ahead of the inevitable, I am a leftist who voted for Harris, and would vote for Newsom if forced to by the DNC. Not because I think either of them deserve any ounce of power over this nation, but solely because FPTP voting fucks over voters and forces people like me to pick the “not outwardly fascist” option. Our best course of action is to support progressive candidates so we won’t have corporate center right posers forced on us in the first place.

Here’s their statement and stance. Comments are publicly viewable and interactable by everyone on Lemmy, it’s how this discussion is happening. Seems like all of this should be obvious.

I didn’t come to their defense so much as read your bizarre response and felt like responding, which I am free to do on this forum. The fact that I agree with their view on this issue also isn’t that notable, given that its an incredibly common one for anyone with a modicum of ability to understand past and current events in US history, especially on a leftist leaning platform.

Please quote the part of my comment where I said that the military is unable to follow their oaths (if they cared or weren’t indoctrinated), where I said I distrust all authority, and that I believe the military should not exist. I’ll wait.

Building a ridiculous strawman to rage at doesn’t refute any of what I or the other user said. Though I suppose we should be careful to not to shake your fragile worldview lest it breaks and you stop tolerating us.

You’re upset at them because they correctly stated that the US military are not superheroes coming to save us all? There is literal historic precedent of the US military firing on US citizens for lawfully protesting. And besides any of that, have you ever spoken to someone who was enlisted or is in the guard? I closely know one combat vet who is a leftist and one officer who is left of center. They have both straight up told me that the idea of the military stopping any of this or fracturing over Trump is a fantasy. Outside of these two people, every military member I’ve met has been proudly MAGA.

Also, not sure who you think you are that you get to “tolerate” the presence of anyone on an online forum that you aren’t an admin of just because you get upset at reality. Use the block button, debate in good faith, or keep scrolling if you dont agree. You aren’t the cyberpolice or our collective mother, go touch grass.