> But you can take solace in the fact that most government organizations are pretty inept.
This is literally the thing that they've been trying to convince you of. Remember Snowden? If not, why not?
So, at least their propaganda wing is working great.
P.S. also, US federal agencies tend to be uniquely stupid, largely due to starve-the-beast politics.
It is not a universal truth. Americans always base their opinions of state institutions in general on their experience with institutions of the American state.
Other countries can & do have actually-effective apparatus, often terrifyingly so.
This is literally the thing that they've been trying to convince you of. Remember Snowden? If not, why not?
So, at least their propaganda wing is working great.
P.S. also, US federal agencies tend to be uniquely stupid, largely due to starve-the-beast politics.
It is not a universal truth. Americans always base their opinions of state institutions in general on their experience with institutions of the American state.
Other countries can & do have actually-effective apparatus, often terrifyingly so.
See, for example, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/technology/police-surveil...