the first idea is far more likely. running a nightly ~180 drone armada to look at people, when they're least likely to be outside, for nothing more than seeing dark pictures of the top of people's heads is an endeavor so pointless and wasteful that not even the us government would throw money at it.   this has been going on for weeks without anyone throwing a hissy fit. if its purpose is to cause media-amplified chaos, they backed the wrong horse. if they wanted news, a man was assassinated and the assassin caught, daniel penny got not guilty, blm is trying to get people to riot, and syria was fucking overthrown by terrorists. the drones are the least amplified chaos. it's not even worthy of a hashtag on twitter.
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