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[–] 218 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (26 children)

And many, many more are going to follow, as Americans learn that they're no longer free to criticize those in power.

And the day will actually come when the notion of someone just being fired for criticizing those in power will seem quaint, since it will then be far more likely that they'll disappear - sucked up into the ever-hungry maw of the corporate police state slave system.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Currently playing through Cyberpunk just to have some kind of preparation of what is eventually to come.

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  • [+] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    Monofilament wire is a real thing, it just doesn't have the tensile strength to act like it does in fiction.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    If you like Mono-filiment whips you should read the Paratwa trilogy by Chrisopher Hinz.. it's about assassins that have 1 mind in 2 bodies, thus more eyes and coordination skills. They train from early childhood to use these Black eggs that extrude a monofilament whip.. it take years to control them so they don't whip about and cut yourself to pieces.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    you could also read Burning Chrome...

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Burning Chrome is normally published as a collection of a few short stories (burning chrome is one story in the collection). There is an assassin that uses monofillimant wire somewhere in one of the stories.

    William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace" in Burning Chrome, is generally regarded as the pioneer of cyberpunk

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If we can't criticize them openly then we'll have to use the other avenues made available via the Constitution. That will just eliminate the warning that negative public sentiment would normally give.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This is how you become a firefighter without going through vigorous training.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Or an assembly line worker.

    Or, quite possibly, it just struck me - a fruit picker or meat packer or motel maid or any of the other jobs that have traditionally been filled by undocumented immigrants.

    Wow....

    Yeah, I hadn't thought of that before, but that could well be why Trump is seemingly unconcerned about the economic impact of deporting the millions of people who have traditionally held the shitty, underpaid jobs nobody else will take - because the plan is to replace them with the new generation of private prison slaves...

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