If you plan to travel internationally it is a good idea to take a burner phone
(if you are that interesting to fbi, they’ll know its not your main phone) but yes
Half the concern is what they take off of your phone but the other half is what they leave behind. A burner should at least help with that.
“Woah woah woah, this sounds scary, authoritarian, and racist. But really, we’ve already tried sending Israel billions of dollars of weapons and scolding them for using the weapons, while sending more weapons and we’re just plum out of ideas! So now we’re just asking everyone who comes through if they have any ideas about what we should do over there.”
This is just like the Stasi!!!
Man the Stasi might be my biggest “There’s actually zero difference between good and bad things. You imbecile. You fucking moron.” thing. Like actually “secret police” whose job is to root out fascism and the remnants of Naziism are fundamentally different from “secret police” whose job is to protect Capital.
Not to mention West German intelligence was literally build by the CIA out of remnants of nazi agencies, and had some real hits in their career like protecting Stepan Bandera when he and his thugs murdered over 100 people in there.
History is a flat circle.
On top of that, they really were used as a way to gauge the sentiment of the people. They did actual, normal “information gathering”. And even then, the Stasi had nowhere near the information on you that Google and Facebook do now.
But yeah, unless you were a fascist, a capitalist reader, or a suspected western intelligence asset, you basically had nothing to worry about.
In the authoritarian capitalist west etc etc
Asking whether or not he supports Hamas wasn’t part of the interrogation. More of a compulsive greeting.
