ABigGuy4U
41m ago
The boot that stomps forever on our faces will be high-healed.
I’m sorry, but I just can’t buy your gauzy New-Deal fantasy about a chicken in every pot, and a cruel Latina dominatrix gf in every sensitive young white man’s bed. The future will not be this bright.
What will really happen is that modern drone warfare will make the combat value of the proletariat the lowest it’s ever been since the adoption of gunpowder. The whole Enlightenment democratic consensus is a concession to the fact that modern warfare needs lots and lots of poor people with rifles. That will all go out the window. You’re getting feudalism. Like the old feudalism, the exact social structures will probably be extremely complicated and vary a lot by what region/entity you’re living in.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Honestly I’m not sure republics or free markets can exist in the era of the modern intelligence agencies. Scott talks about how Modernity ate the west and then the world, well the Tsarist secret police apparatus was made contagious by the Soviets, and now it’s eating the world too.
That’s how a lot of real spying works, which is why autismos on this website keep getting their brains broken by bullshit covers like Robert Maxwell never technically collecting a payroll check from Mossad, or Alan Dulles technically being retired from the CIA at the time Kennedy died.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Western countries have also been quietly rolling out a lot of PSAs about stockpiling food and water and preparing for major electrical grid and emergency services outages.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
It could be about being sorry for racism against black people
State legitimacy could be about black people. Or black girls. Or cute black girls. Or having cute black girls. Or having lots of cute black girls. Or having literally all of the cute black girls. Or — GET AWAY FROM MY CUTE BLACK GIRLS YOU GODDAMNED BLUEBELLIED YANKEE SUMBITCH! I’LL CUT YA! I’LL CUT YA!
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
Ok look, I’ve already been in love with my boss’s daughter. I don’t need to know what it would be like to love an AI-morphed version of someone who hates me. It sucks!
@Amadan @Hydroactelyene
like in the sense of they rub a lamp and have any three wishes, would they use them for that?
Not a magic lamp, Jesus Christ himself, as part of the apocalyptic End of Days. That was the basic principle of the Ghost Dance back in 1891. In the history books they always edit that famous picture of Sitting Bull to cut out the giant crucifix around his neck.
Later American Indian radicals like AIM were mostly protesting the fact that the reservations were being run like South American banana republics, complete with death squads backed by US glowies.
I suspect it’s more someone sperging out over the poster who suggested nuking Gaza so he wouldn’t have to hear about it anymore.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
I said the @Dean-Industrial Complex. I was using you as a synecdoche (metonym?) for an entire class of smart, motivated effort posters who (no offense) seem to mostly tow the NATO consensus.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
I mean the whole journalistic-military-industrial-@Dean complex, not you specifically.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Sorry, I still remember the three months you thought you were winning the Iran war. You spent the whole time trying to convince us that now Turkey is the new great satan and threat to the free world.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
It was also punishment for being Nixon’s hatchet-man for the Saturday Night Massacre.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
The persistent drought out west doesn’t help, it destroyed a lot of grazing area.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
Do I have to point out the obvious weirdness of the CEO of a surveillance company dying in a suspicious plane crash three days before the election?
ABigGuy4U
10d ago
Except wartime Ukraine, Israel is by far the largest single recipient of US aid, despite its small population and first-world standard of living.
Does this count for inflation? I have a hard time believing Israel or Ukraine got anything close to what the Soviets got in WWII. Ford was the most common make of truck in the USSR until like the 1970s just from the lend-lease.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
Thats the same mechanism that most pre-civil rights voter restriction laws used to bar African-Americans from voting.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
Anyway, the other thing Tucker clipped from this interview is the guy claiming that the CIA paid Jackson Pollock large amounts of money to make "art" that was terrible for the express purpose of fucking with the Soviets, who wouldn't understand it.
Anon, I…
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
I don't believe there's any evidence that de Morhenshildt actually worked for the CIA.
It’s right there on the front of his Wikipedia page.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
There are just not hordes of minority men prowling the streets kidnapping children.
There are, but it’s usually their own children, and due to baby-mama drama and not anything inappropriate.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
I’d argue it’s more a quirk of Russia, where it was always common for the current regime to pick one special ethnic group and use it as a hammer against all the others. First it was the Sarmatians, then the Cossacks, then the Jews, and now it’s the Chechens.
ABigGuy4U
16d ago
Given that Oswald has a documented CIA handler (George De Morhenshildt), I don’t know how proving he was the only shooter rules out a conspiracy at all.
The Bath School Disaster in the 20s. Charles Whitman in the 60s. That guy who suicide bombed his kid’s school in Texas in the 50s. That racially motivated mass shooting on the train in San Francisco in the 70s. That McDonalds mass shooting in the 80s. That mass shooting at that college in Canada in the 70s. There were a lot of others, they just didn’t get much press as a phenomenon.
First, American colonial policing operations aren’t real wars. Real wars require large volumes of people. Second, bear in mind that in those colonial policing operations, the other side was entirely poor guys with rifles.
The short term effect of drones is going to be World War I style trench warfare like in Ukraine. That’s going to need a lot of people. Further into the future the systems will likely become mostly automated and the then it’s a feudal oligarchy of whoever has the keys to the war machine.
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