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[–] 108 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Watching The Man in the High castle hits very different now.
People over here are seeing what is going on in the USA but
they might still vote for Reform and then we are done. The rich will make sure that they control everything including
every citizen.
Palantir, Musk, Bezos,Thiel and all the other monsters will plunder
what is left of the worlds resources and retreat to their many bunkers
or Mars. They think AI will fix the earth and according to them millions will die in the process of them remaking the world into a Technocratic feudal system.And for that they want all the data till they know more
about you than you do yourself.

At least that's what they have in their project 2025 and beyond as a plan.
They want only the "right" people to survive. It makes horrifying reading, they think of empathy and kindness as big
massive weakness,they want the sick,disabled ,lgbtq and others to die as thy are seen as a burden on their system. Sorry for the rant but I am old and these people scare me.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Do you have any further reading material? It feels like we haven't gotten too far past the point of no return but I suppose once you pass that point, by definition you can't return. Are we really that close to Snowcrash?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    This is a good explanation of project 2025. It is a roadmap to the extreme right.
    Women will lose their right to vote,getting contraceptives will be hard to come
    by as they want women,white women to have as many babies as possible.
    They want to institutionalize all homeless,disabled and mentally ill.Withing their circles the talk of mercy killings of these people. There is so much more craziness they want to enact and people need to organize and fight back. https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Project-2025-Full-Report.pdf

    https://lofgren.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/lofgren.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Stop%20Project%202025%20Task%20Force's%20Project%202025%20Subject-by-Subject%20Breakdown_7.26.2024.docx-compressed.pdf

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Doug Rushkoff's Survival of the Richest paints a really fascinating picture of the tech billionaire mindset. Rushkoff has been writing about tech for like 50 years so he's able to explain the evolution from creative tech anarchist to fascist sociopath. "They seem to think they can design a car fast enough to outrun its own exhaust."

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If it's any comfort, none of them are getting to Mars.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    To be fair, I would love it if they fucked off to Mars.

    If they did, it sure would be a shame if their radio stopped working

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