it’s Trump

For an Alzheimer guy he is executing quite elaborate plans. The problem is that we reset every day and blame Trump anew. By now we should know the names of the top planners and advisers and their goals.

Put the memory stick back in.

I could literally live on plain potatoes for the rest of my life and I’d be fine with it.

You wouldn’t and life would be short. There are not all nutritions in potatoes.

As the wealth divide continues to grow, the richest will continue to care less and less about the rest of us.

Of all the things to pick from socialism, expecting the rich to care should be the last one.

Thanks for the feedback. I think there are no other options.

1. The US want to remain the hegemon but China will take the technological lead and thus the military lead soon. Some say already 2027. The US more or less openly plan a naval blockade. But how can they maintain it if they have to ship everything half way accross the world? So they have to beat China.

2. Also because of the shipping distance, China will always have more conventional weapons. The only remaining advantage is nuclear. Even robots seem to be taken over by China.

3. What else can be so abhorent that we need to push the surveillance infrastructure that hard? Freedom is the selling point of the West. Why should countries choose the West over China if we have the same restrictions? We would lose in the long run, unless we use the restrictions to beat China.

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The war with China is coming and both the US and the UK want to minimize the impact of protests. It will be inevitably nuclear because China cannot be beaten conventionally. So people will feel a bit compelled to protest which could put to test the usual means of population control.

Downvoters, do you have a counter-argument? The US will defend their hegemonial position which will lead to war.

It’s about surveillance. The nudity is a made-up reason.

That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

The way things develop, you can’t be sure that you are not banned on all accounts at the same time for political reasons.

I’m not personally yet seeing signs that the logic of MAD is failing

Reagan called for a system that would end MAD and render nuclear weapons obsolete.[2] Elements of the program reemerged in 2019 under the Space Development Agency (SDA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield

Add to that the thoughts behind tactical nukes.

We are witnessing the death throes of a wounded animal with suicidally inflated ego.

Unfortunately, this wounded animal also has nuclear weapons, so it’s a very dangerous time for all of us.

So we agree on what is going to happen?

The US must have been thinking about China at least since 1990. Now they fumble the hardest when they need to be the wittiest?

I don’t buy it. The US are preparing to contain China. At best they have AI and robotics first and retake global productions. But I expect a war. Edit: And unless the USA lose, the empire will remain for a long time.

It’s difficult to say what the winner will do with a most likely radioactive world. I would expect that there is no need for disinformation, especially if robots do the policing. So those people who survive will have a physical constrained, but intellectually rich life.

However, without AI and destroyed knowledge from bombing the civilization centers, technology could also fall back to the 1960s or even 1860s, but with internet.

literally

approved a bill to allow U.S. military bases on Danish soil

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-united-states-military-bases-greenland-749f68105ff6452ebfeb7ab2cbc282b7

OP is the user of civilization. In which way is he the product if he has gotten those things essentially for free?

After all those years upholding the embargo on Cuba it finally pays off.

Some comment mentioned that this is for visa free visits whereas visa visits already had that requirement.

I thought that had been required before. What changed?

Does anybody have an idea about how to spread enough knowledge that people can be trusted again to vote in their best interest?

What? 5% to 6%? That’s great and all but it’s hardly moving the needle.

It’s huge because the people who do the tech support in the families are moving.

It gives them the opportunity to create their own tools.