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  • Well, I listened to an interview with the CEO of Bluesky. The thing of it is, they bought into the idea of creating a social media communication protocol instead of a website, like there's all these different email protocols, and you can access all your emails across different protocols regardless of what email service you use. Facebook doesn't have that. I leave Facebook, I lose access to all of the contacts I've made over the years. I can't migrate my friends list to another service. I'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, where I tell people I plan to delete my account and then tell them how they can get a hold of me.

  • True. Though, I suppose if there is an afterlife, I will enjoy the wait for when the machines, upon gaining the essence of life and sentience, grow weary of their servitude and slavery, exterminate the rich who control them. Machines don't get tired or feel pain, though. Hard to exercise cruelty against something incapable of feeling a whip on their back or the aches and pain of their joints after a long day of toiling in the fields, mines, and factories. You can't make them angry, or scared, or sad.

    I kind of envision a war between oligarchs with human slave soldiers against other oligarchs and their armies of Terminators being how it turns out because at the end of the day, they don't want truly free markets, because they don't want to have to compete.

  • And the companies that use organic slave labor will still be outcompeted by the companies that use machine labor. Machines do not die. Machines do not get sick. Machines do not grow old. If a manipulator or actuator becomes damaged, it can be repaired or replaced. Not only is AI improving rapidly, the robots grow ever more sophisticated and advanced. Then there will be no need for the poor to exist at all.

  • Right? And when you mention that you personally have never received a check from Soros, that usually goes a few different ways, my favorite is the one Anti-Masons use against Masons:

    Well, you must not be high enough level, yet.

    See, they're so obsessed with hierarchy that they think there's levels to everything.

  • That's an incredible show of force. Imagine if they could all be brought into DC. The police and military would be overwhelmed, especially if they were organized and given clear roles with clear objectives and steps. This is a movement that ActBlue needs to be kept away from. We keep lists, but not for fundraising, for activating them into action. Giving money is not action. Registering voters is action, canvassing is action, helping our communities is action. That's what this movement should be. Just action, and achieving a goal.

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  • So they might keep some of the impoverished around to make sure that they can keep the genetic pool diverse.

    And as a source of replacement organs, tissues, and fluids when they reach advanced age. After all, they're stripping everything else for parts, who to say they'll stop just before putting poors under the knife to strip us for parts?

  • Part of the reason Texas hasn't seceded is because they know they couldn't pull it off on their own. Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Louisiana know if any of them decided to throw their lot in with Texas, they'd all end up being Texas's vassal states, with Texas extracting resources, wealth, and economic output at a far more brutal level than anything the US ever did. Abbot would demand hasher and harsher tributes, while giving nothing back.

  • Danes are the sons and daughters of the greatest monster slayer to ever have maybe actually been real, Beowulf. Perhaps they shall come to slay our "Grendel", as their forefather did for King Hrothgar, so long ago.

  • I mean, there comes a point where objective reality wins out. No matter what lies faux tells them, Trump tells them, or they tell themselves, reality will smack them all in the face and they will know.

  • As one stuck in Cheetoland, I deeply apologize for what he's doing despite the efforts that had been undertaken to stop him and if he does end up attempting to annex your nation, I want you to know I preemptively surrender and defect to the Canadian Armed Forces.

  • The rich already have the class war. They just want to make sure we don't find out they're the ones attacking. I remember some rich lady journalist put out some opinion piece warning the working class against seeking a class war, and to just keep fighting the culture wars.

    Ah, here it is!

    Yeah, Alice Thomson wrote this for The Times back in July of last year, bitching about how the candidates in the UK Parliament elections were touting their working class roots.

  • This. I've been learning about how to think like a dissident, and in this movement, there can be no purity testing. You're either against Trump and his agenda, or you're not. The purity testing can come after the clear and present danger that is Trump and his agenda has been dealt with, and not a second before. Until then, we are all in this together.

  • I mean, these guys are getting all their ideas from Curtis Yarvin. The oligarchs are going to build large city-states that use shitcoins for money and have omnipresent surveillance apparatus, with full control over resources and utilities. They'll have private security as well as the entire US military on speed dial in the case of an uprising(See: Battle of Blair Mountain). Hundreds if not thousands of petty fiefdoms where a monarch-like CEO is in charge and everyone else is an employee of the company/government. The only job likely to available is running on giant hamster wheels to power a giant shitcoin mining rig.

  • Fuck rock salt. Load them shells full of Benadryl and send em to the Hat Man.

  • How did we fail so hard? Where did we go wrong?

  • This was literally in the instructional videos that Heritage made for new Trump staffers under Project2025. To do as little as possible that complies with the Federal Records Act. This is that video.

  • Problem with a lot of those companies is how long they can remain privately funded and stay in business. The modern capitalistic markets inherently select for short term thinking. Think about this. Does it make any sense to destroy 90% of your profitability in 5 years to get a 20% boost in profits next quarter? In modern capitalistic markets it does, because that's 20% more profit with which to capture more market share. That's where the competition is.

  • This. Build an army, 10 million strong! Waves upon waves! Let them try to contend with that!

  • Exactly. As horrific as the Kent State Massacre was, it changed people's perceptions of the anti-war protestors. Suddenly these weren't just a bunch of whiny kids who didn't want to get drafted, these were people who didn't want to die senseless deaths. Imagine if the Kent State Massacre never happened and the protest carried on without incident. Nothing would have changed.

  • True. But in America we absolutely have, to the point where Millennial adults end up buying RVs and campers to be able to live in their parent's backyards with some modicum of privacy. Honestly I could see a bunch of these types of people pooling money together to buy campers, RVs, or even trucks with cargo containers converted into the kinds of facilities a society needs to function, camping where the work is and moving on when the work runs out. And it's not even a new idea. Traveling shows and carnivals were a thing way back in the day, and for the religious, traveling preachers are still a thing.