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It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.
by throwawayoldie 1y ago
It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.
- HaZeust 1y agoDon't ever let anyone brainwash you into thinking we don't have the money and guns either.
- mnky9800n 1y agoI don’t think ai interviews warrant gun violence.
- achierius 1y agoWhat about being forced out of your home, onto the street, to starve or freeze to death?
- mnky9800n 1y agoIf ai interviews are doing this to you then we live in different worlds.
- HaZeust 1y agoFerdinand didn't warrant WWI on his own, either. There's straws that break a camel's back. Not saying AI interviews are THE straw, but I am telling you to act less surprised about whatever the straw ends up being.
- phkahler 1y ago>> I don’t think ai interviews warrant gun violence. What about gun violence against the machine? ;-)
- mnky9800n 1y agoI don’t want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand? And I want to be rich. You know, someone important. Like an actor.
- panarky 1y agoWhat kind of violence do they warrant?
- IggleSniggle 1y agoWell said. Everybody has power, they just throw it away because exercising your personal power is at best a pita, and at worst, personally dangerous. But retaining access to your personal power requires exercising it from time to time, or it will atrophy.
- assword 1y agoYou simply lack the organization, resolve, and popular support.
- os2warpman 1y agoGuns are useless. Everyone who believes guns are some kind of savior or last-ditch protector is fucking stupid. There is a reason why, during westward expansion, the first thing towns did when they got two nickels to rub together to buy bricks to build a church was ban guns. There are so many real-world examples of guns being useless that it defies logic and belief that people cling to the myth. There are so few examples of guns being useful that those examples are the irrelevant exceptions to the norm. Every single valley in Afghanistan has a small village along the valley stream where every household has at least one automatic rifle. That is what a society saturated with weaponry looks like: paranoid, tribal, and rapey. In the US, the second "the good guys" show up with their AR and wish.com tacticool gear and start to pose any actual threat, the bad guys will retreat behind fortified walls and fences and start dropping JDAMs.
- shrubble 1y agoLike with the Viet Cong and the Afghanistan people who were conquered and absorbed into the American or Russian systems, right?
- throwawayoldie 1y agoAnd now let's imagine what might happen if the US military tried to occupy a country full of guerillas who look like them, dress like them, speak the same language, and share a cultural background.
- pixl97 1y agoThe US wins on logistics because it has a lot of stuff already built, and anything we need we can build in the US and get it out of the US quickly. This quickly falls apart in the US if we go civil war on each other. We are technologically fragile. If just a small portion of the people of the US went around shooting electrical distribution, fuel refining and NG compression facilities the US would have one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the last 50 years, maybe longer. This said, there are a number of countries that would love to see us do this to each other.
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- Kiro 1y agoBold of a CEO thinking they are part of "we".
- delta_p_delta_x 1y agoThe sickle and hammer looking real interesting now.
- shermantanktop 1y agoIt surprises me that the monied elite seem to have so little awareness of what happens when they keep winning.
- newswasboring 1y agoPlease give me an example of what happens. Edit: before someone throws very strong platitudes at me again, I would like to see real-world examples. Because at least in my lifetime there have been zero consequences for people in power. Edit 2: I've been banned from replying to this thread (lol, talk about power of the state). I guess I didn't define my acceptance criteria properly. But I thought it would be clear that the goal should be uplifting everyone not just shift the money around to someone else. That is what most of the revolutions mentioned in the replies are.
- throwawayoldie 1y agoSome very close haircuts.
- newswasboring 1y agoWhen was the last instance of this in the last 100 years?
- mosburger 1y agoNicolae Ceaușescu comes to mind? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Death EDIT: One could argue whether the United Healthcare CEO assassination meets the criteria, too.
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- AnimalMuppet 1y agoUnless it's a government job, the interviewers don't have guns. They just have money. Nobody said I have to talk to them.
- flohofwoe 1y agoThey don't have guns - yet ;)
- spauldo 1y agoMore like they don't have guns any more. Go back a hundred years, you can see what went on when they did. And the government was right there with them.
- throwawayoldie 1y agoI take your point, but whose side do you think the government is on? Ours?
- simpaticoder 1y agoThere is an ongoing tension between the idea that our behavior is shaped by the systems around us and the belief that it stems solely from our personal choices. The truth is, it’s never one or the other exclusively - both factors play a role. Nobody says you have to eat processed food, but when 90% of the food available to you (and 100% of the inexpensive food) is processed, it's misleading to argue that eating processed food is a personal problem. The same applies to AI interviews, or any number of other issues.
- throwawayoldie 1y agoThere's a third possibility: collective action. It's easy to forget this, because the powers that be have been working hard for many decades to denigrate it.
- miroljub 1y agoCollective action needs to come from somewhere. In a nation of destroyed extended family, primary family, racial or national identity, with no religion, workers unions, or any other sense of community, where everyone is a snowflake individual, it's pretty impossible that a group of people will ever form a collective capable of doing any actions. Now, think about it why we were conditioned from the ground up to forefeit any connections with other people and basically bared of forming high trust communities.
- ttoinou 1y agoHuh what ? You have the same weapons here, you can simply use AI to interview for you on your behalf
- ModernMech 1y agoThat strategy wins the battle but loses the war.
- akudha 1y agoWhat is the point of numbers if there is no unity? Since Covid, there are decent successes in forming unions and collective bargaining, but it is nowhere enough. How many IT workers (as an example) have unionized or even have positive opinions on unions? A handful of guys can effectively rule large groups of people for a long period of time, if the said large group can't unite, can't help each other.
- eunos 1y agoMany IT folks were cocky during the post-COVID height. Some even mock Unions for making firings harder, worried that their "incompetent" co-workers difficult to boot.
- FridgeSeal 1y agoMany people in software especially have been successfully convinced that any kind of unionisation will be to their detriment. That they’ll suffer lower wages and “difficult to fire bad workers” will be inevitable result of unions, despite both these things happening already.
- Aeolun 1y agoI think it’s because it is hard to hard to fire incompetent people, and the software industry is absolutely flooded with them?
- strken 1y agoI'm in a union and I still criticise unions for this. You can't make it harder to fire people unfairly without also making it harder to fire them when they're actively harming the business and/or their co-workers.
- siva7 1y agoCome on, the myth that it's hard to fire incompetent people is total bullcrap, perpetuated by executives to avoid dealing with unions. I live in one of the countries with the strongest union protections and traditions in the world. It's not hard here to fire someone if you want to fire them´, even if in union.