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I'm fascinated by the mindset that causes businesses to hire people to spy on their employees to make sure they are working. Certainly leaves a gap in the argument that they don't have the resources to pay more than minimum wage.

And what happens if the "Live Eye" folk start to shirk their duties? Do the company now have to hire spies to spy on the spies?
Whatever software the Live Eye agents are using for their remote monitoring will certainly monitor the agents' activities too, I would think. That's pretty much standard, isn't it, at least as an option (Upwork, which I use, has it turned on by default for contractors, though my clients don't use it, so I would imagine an actual surveillance service would have something similar).
 

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Whatever software the Live Eye agents are using for their remote monitoring will certainly monitor the agents' activities too, I would think.
But you have to pay someone to monitor the monitoring, even as a review. The software certainly can't fire anyone, surely...
 

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His father says that he reads widely. The Prevent referral states that his comments are starting to stick out as “non-typical” for a boy his age due to his interest in medieval history, war, siege engines and soldiers.
Is that....really a non-typical interest for an 11-year-old boy?

When I was 11 every cartoon on TV worth actually watching involved at least one of those things.
 

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Frikkin paywalls.
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And ESPN:

 

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I looked at tweet, and saw the ad -- it's their Fourth of July ad, full of quotes from signatories to the Declaration of Independence and other distinguished American presidents and judges over the years about what a Christian place the US is.

It's all standard soft-focus Christian nationalism that their customers must have seen hundreds of times before on inspirational memes and fridge magnets and so on.


It's scary stuff but not in the way that tweet makes it sound, at least not to my mind.
 
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I looked at tweet, and saw the ad -- it's their Fourth of July ad, full of quotes from signatories to the Declaration of Independence and other distinguished American presidents and judges over the years about what a Christian place the US is.

It's all standard soft-focus Christian nationalism that their customers must have seen hundreds of times before on inspirational memes and fridge magnets and so on.


It's scary stuff but not in the way that tweet makes it sound, at least not to my mind.
People who want Christofascism scare the hell out of me. Not that there aren't a lot of kinds of Christianity that don't count as real to them, but I'm 1) not any kind of a Christian, and 2) part of the group that they blame for Jesus's death (telling them it was the Romans wouldn't do any good).
 

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People who want Christofascism scare the hell out of me. Not that there aren't a lot of kinds of Christianity that don't count as real to them, but I'm 1) not any kind of a Christian, and 2) part of the group that they blame for Jesus's death (telling them it was the Romans wouldn't do any good).
They scare the hell out of me, too. I was just saying that they're doing what they seem to do every year, and trying to hijack a national holiday by turning it into an ethnic/tribal celebration, rather than making any particular policy demands.

It was a claxon rather than a dog-whistle, but it was Hobby Lobby being exactly what we know they are rather than Hobby Lobby publishing a manifesto or policy statement or something like that.
 
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It was a claxon rather than a dog-whistle, but it was Hobby Lobby being exactly what we know they are rather than Hobby Lobby publishing a manifesto or policy statement or something like that.
In my younger days, I don't remember religious groups having to defend their place in society. I assume that is because religion wasn't in retreat, like it is today. It's also possible I was just not paying attention at the time.

One religious activist group I encountered were the Moonies, who set up shop outside the gates of the university campus, handing out New Testaments and writing stuff on a blackboard. So the campus science fiction society (of which I was a member) set up a competing blackboard on which we wrote "God is a blackboard". This made sense to people at a university, and the Moonies got pissed that we were attracting a bigger crowd.
 

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In my younger days, I don't remember religious groups having to defend their place in society. I assume that is because religion wasn't in retreat, like it is today.
Kind of like how when disco became popular all these old rock bands started feeling defensive and making songs about how "rock and roll will never die"? :D
 

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Didn't disco actually die in 1979? I was more into electronic space music than rock at the time, but even I remember reading something about it.