The proposed law would require messaging apps to store copies of user messages.

The law isn’t targeted at users directly. It’s targeted at the service providers. If the cops can access your phone you’re already screwed.

Blocking Signal traffic might be theoretically feasible but it would be a game of whack-a-mole. Legally, Signal might have to stop serving IPs in Sweden but that’s Sweden’s problem and VPNs exist.

They built one in Honduras called Prospera. It’s going about as well for the locals as you’d expect.

I think part of their plan is to get rid of federal workers, let private industry replace government services, and lower private wages with the flood of federal works.

It will make the country worse off. It will make the rich richer.

Yeah, $250k in an average to high cost of living area is middle class comfortable. Not rich.

Calling that income rich is a tactic to get the middle class to identify with the billionaires and support regressive policies.

Lie detectors don’t work except as an intimidation technique so, yes, it’s Gestapo time.