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Engineered Crises and the Case for a Surveillance State

from Musk vs. Trump, Ukrainian Drones, & A Very Special List | The Tim Dillon Show #447 · #447

3 min

Tim strings together COVID lab-leak theories, Hamas funding, and Bin Laden's CIA-backed origins to argue that manufactured crises are used to justify surrendering freedoms to a digital surveillance state like Palantir's.

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  • Tim argues the U.S. engineers crises to justify beefing up its nuclear arsenal and starting another cold war to stimulate the economy.
  • Putin threatens nuclear weapons to make people negotiate, but instead the U.S. keeps escalating, showing no interest in the war ending.
  • Zelenskyy is being used as a puppet trotted out to escalate rather than seek peace, throwing weapons at the problem instead of trying to end it.
  • To prevent nuclear weapons from entering the country, the government would need information on every human being who's ever lived.
  • The only way to stop any of this is with a digital security state that demands citizens give up all their freedoms.
  • Foreign policy has a common denominator: create a crisis, then claim the only solution is a digital surveillance state.
  • Simple solutions exist—don't engineer a coronavirus in a lab, don't fund terrorist groups—but the pattern keeps repeating anyway.
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