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2028: "To be secure as a nation we need to stamp out all dissent against the government and require all citizens to swear unyielding loyalty to the President."
by 0xbadcafebee 7mo ago
2028: "To be secure as a nation we need to stamp out all dissent against the government and require all citizens to swear unyielding loyalty to the President."
- kingkawn 7mo agoThis is 100% coming barring a mass political rising
- creationcomplex 7mo agoStart a war. Call dissent treason. Crush the left. Capitalism falls back to fascism to protect wealth, time and time again.
- wise_young_man 7mo agoIf AI takes all the jobs and consolidation of wealth continues it’s not an unlikely outcome. No income no spending = dead economy, poverty and starvation. What are do people do when their government and capitalism fails them?
- Gud 7mo agoAI will perhaps take “all the jobs” in a far distant future. Hopefully by then humanity has managed to get educated and learned to cooperate and share.
- Hasslequest 7mo agoIt doesn't have to take all the jobs. If it can take most of the fake jobs we've invented over the years, it will be massively destructive to our way of life. It seems to already have that level of capability. Funny that you assume education will lead to some sort of egalitarian society. What do you think the point of modern education is? We all take the course in evolution and natural selection, whether we want to or not. We all study history. We all fraternize and learn the little political games or we drop out. Some of us recieve a degree in hard knocks. Why shouldn't the educated be more cutthroat than the rest of us?
- Gud 7mo agoI didn’t make the point that education automatically leads to an egalitarian society. I made the point that humans can be educated to care for one another(indoctrination if you will).
- 0xbadcafebee 7mo agoyep. Tried to overthrow the government once already, with no consequence, so there's no reason not to try it again. This time he's way more entrenched/powerful. He & VP have said multiple times they want to remove all govt workers who aren't "their people", which would make a 1-Party state, aka authoritarian regime. Culmination of Project 2025 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Allegations_of_authoritarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Allegations_of_au...). We're going to lose Iran war, which will put more pressure on "national security" & economy. That'll dovetail into 2028 elections. So he'll start a new war, claim there are extremists at home, start martial law, refuse to leave office. When that happens, same things that happen in every authoritarian regime will start. He's said publicly he wants to jail his enemies and curtail rights like free speech and journalism. It'll be extended into more fearmongering about minority groups to galvanize the base. Those big detention camps will get a lot bigger. Economy will be in the shitter, but that's fine, just blame it on "enemies", talk about "empire", and start a world war. Draft comes back, suddenly you have a huge infantry, lots of factory workers, staffed largely by political enemies.
- CGMthrowaway 7mo ago[flagged]
- arnonymous 7mo agoExcept that was actually the policy all around the world and not unique to the US administration at the time. So not sure what your point is, time to move on...
- datsci_est_2015 7mo agoWhat is the purpose of this comment? Genuinely trying to understand.
- Sabinus 7mo agoI don't understand why this conspiratorial belief has persisted. The restrictions ended. They happened worldwide. They were clearly for the safety of the public and the functioning of the health system during a novel virus epidemic.
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- 0xbadcafebee 7mo agoWhy'd you leave out the "to prevent millions of deaths" part?