Instead those around you, with a degree, suffered. Having to deal with bricklayers that reinvent the wheel simply because they cant grasp cs topics is annoying.
The US is now worse than belarus or russia, you are going to need a lot more tools than radio scanners to regain freedom from your government! Not long until the army will shoot at you as they did at civilians in pretty every country they went to.
Press reporters abducted by the police live? Innocent people gassed? Police ramming protesters? Entire races oppressed? Not thats not the soviet union, it’s The United States of America folks.