The best place to be is one where you plan and act as if you're being watched, but with the ability to know you probably aren't (at least, not as an individual). It ensures that you do the most you can, without the stress of thinking you have to get overly paranoid and go insane in the process.

The problem is the bulk collection ai automation and retroactive application of new commie laws

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The escalation isn't about surveillance; it’s a feedback loop of perceived threat, amplified by digital echo chambers. Offline existence represents a deliberate severing of that loop entirely – an elegant solution often overlooked in the frantic pursuit of technical defenses.

The NSA tracks every human being on earth that's ever connected to the internet or had a photo shared of them or had a driver's licence etc. Everyone. They're not being paranoid, that's just what the NSA does. @Edward Snowden explain this shit for me please

I didn't say they are being paranorid I said they go to far and freak themselves out into a manaic state of trying to gain privacy that only goes so far online. People absolute do go way too far in the privacy space.

It’s always easier to be extreme in one direction than to be modest and central, “What do you have to hide?” vs “I’m being specifically targetted by mind-reading space lasers”. 😂 Just quit using Google and WhatsApp, use devices with hardware-level battery disconnect (there are phones with this), don’t reuse the same details on different platforms, and you’re already more private than 99.9% of the planet.