3 ms·
Not a crime, necessarily, just a hefty debit against your social credit score.
by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Not a crime, necessarily, just a hefty debit against your social credit score.
- ok_dad 8mo agoOr a precursor to minority report precrime
- jcgrillo 8mo agoIt's an interesting conundrum.. I've always viewed "the law" as something that doesn't really materialize until you're arrested, arraigned, tried, and sentenced. So "breaking" the law and "getting away with it" isn't actually "illegal" it's just... normal. The law only matters if some filthy rat narc catches you and summons the pigs. Not sure how any of that adjusts in this scenario, really.
- King-Aaron 8mo agoOn a macro scale, in Australia if you don't have a paid private health policy, you get slugged with additional tax come tax time. The same could happen here - "oh, you don't have social media? Well the state needs more tax from you to pay for your additional state surveillance"
- jcgrillo 8mo agoCould it though? I have lived in rural areas and urban areas of the US. This speaks more to the rural areas than the urban, but only marginally--Americans like their firearms, they're suspicious of The Government, and they don't much care for the tax man. And by and large they like to be left the fuck alone. If the revenuers show up demanding too much we have a rich and storied history of mistreating them.
- nixon_why69 8mo agoHow's that working out right now?
- lobsterthief 8mo agoYeah, turns out Americans (rural or not) prefer creature comforts like Amazon and Netflix over exercising their 2A rights. All talk. Source: American observing what’s going on right now.
- cluckindan 8mo ago82% of US households have an Amazon Prime subscription while only 30% own a gun.
- DANmode 8mo agoJoke’s on them, I’ve been LARPing as a tech founder since childhood.