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It's amazing how consistent this is with fascists.

You can look back at their statements and it's true like 86% of the time--every SINGLE THING they accuse others of doing is something that they, themselves are demonstrably engaged in.

When those people post on the internet, it really should just be a long line of regular people replying 'Every accusation is a confession.'

It's funny I heard yesterday some guy that's very good at a game called Trackmania talk about something similar. One day he got accused by someone even better than him of cheating. Turns out the accuser was actually the one cheating lol.

I guess you know about cheating when you are and the frustration is even greater whwn you lose because you believe deep down that it's impossible to do better without cheating. Admitting that you lost would create cognitive dissonance so your only option left is to accuse the other one of the very thing you did.

What GPS data? It just sounds like BS being spewed.

If you use a faraday bag, there’s no need to leave your phone.

All of the far right movements use the same talking points now, they just tailor them for local audiences. The GOP started spreading its filth worldwide decades ago. None of this is an accident.

Because for the right, the concept of people coming together as a grassroots movement and setting aside some political differences to unite as a group, was unheard of until Tea Party/MAGA.

It’s an implicit admission - how else could ‘those radical lefties/gays/immigrants/etc’ get these crowd sizes except by astroturfing like the right has to?

Fun fact back in I want to say 2008 there was a big old anti-gay protest thing that filled up a stadium here in California, turned out a solid chunk of attendees were bussed in by the Mormon fucken church. Sadly this fact wasn't dug up particularly well until after prop 8(?) which banned gay marriage, luckily I think we have since voted it out. Also yes it did swing public opinion that badly, luckily I think it reaffirmed our weird xenophobia here in California so I don't think it'd work again.

In countries that are ostensibly democracies to justify your actions you have to claim you have majority support. Any crowd of people is a threat to that perception, so it makes sense (in a shitty way) that we see the "paid protestors" attack so often.

Yep they do. Its either directly or through apps that track and sell your location data. But lots of people either wouldnt have their phone with them or have gps disabled so this 20k number is obviously stupid.

They do not, at least not in the way that this couple of Twitter influencers is claiming.

If you are a bounty hunter (bail bondsman) for instance you can pay a fee to get a rough location on a phone number that you provide. That does not work in this instance, there's no service that allows you to ask, "send me the phone numbers and account ownership names of every single mobile device in this 3 mile radius during the protest".

There is absolutely no way they have tracking data for the 30,000-odd attendees across all the various mobile providers and platforms (Apple/Google/etc) just a day or so later without state-level surveillance agencies access. And even then, the picture would be incomplete and need a LOT of work for them to make the claims they're making about it overlapping with other groups they're monitoring.

Its all made up.

The government has devices called stingrays that perform a mitm attack granting access to a few types of information, including GPS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

Whistleblowers revealed NSA equipment rooms at at&t: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

Almost every citizen is carrying a tracking device with a powerful microphone, all their communications, and location. It's a little tinfoil hattish, but I would be willing to bet they can draw a shape on a map and see who was in that area during a certain timeframe.

Leave your phone home if you are attending any events that the government might not like.

So, where does the guy get this data?

From his arsehole.

2000 ~~Mules!!~~ Fools!

Not so fun fact: Ginny Thomas, the wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, helped organize and pay for those buses.

Because they are stupid. They think that if they accuse someone else everyone will look at the distraction and not you.

It’s just like when Elon accused that dive guy of being a pedophile. It was that very moment I knew it was Musk that was the pedo.

GPS itself isn’t the issue. Devices like smartphones are GPS receivers only, meaning they can only receive GPS signals. It’s what those devices do with GPS that’s the actual problem.

The thing is, smartphones can be tracked by multiple methods. You can locate them via cell tower triangulation. And to a lesser extent even WiFi tracking, Bluetooth tracking, etc. So if you really don’t want to be tracked then turn your devices completely off. Or better yet leave them home.