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Are we now in full blown fascist totalitarianism?

unapologetic said:
GenesisNemesis said:
There are so many boycotts of products I don't use, I've lost count.
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This vid is not so much about the boycott. It's about the coordinated survailance of whole neighborhoods.
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We are slowly sleep walking into a panopticon. Technology is invasive yet appears so benign.
Orwell under-exaggerated the threat and we ingnored him.
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Tigers! said:
Technology is invasive yet appears so benign.
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The Trump administrstion is weaponizing it to supress freedom of speech. Observe that they are demanding social media companies to provide personal details on people who object to ICE in the link I provided in the other thread.

Australia might be benign. The Trump administration is malignant.
 
Tigers! said:
We are slowly sleep walking into a panopticon. Technology is invasive yet appears so benign.
Orwell under-exaggerated the threat and we ingnored him.
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George Orwell said:
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.
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Of course he was wildly wrong. The Telescreen was a sinister presence in every home, but the reality is that it is welcome. "Hey, Telescreen, play my 'relaxation' playlist". "Hi, Telescreen, find me a recipe for cinnamon muffins".

Of course, it actually goes by "Alexa" or "Siri". It still records anything "above the level of a very low whisper", and there is "of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment".

In Orwell's day, surveillance required actual human spies listening to everything, but today a computer can scan a huge number of feeds, looking for words and phrases pre-selected as being of interest to the thought police. Things are far worse than he envisaged, because technology has advanced in leaps and bounds since the 1940s.
 
Synopsis of South Park's "Let Go, Let Gov" episode:
Cartman goes to the NSA headquarters impersonating a job applicant ... The NSA chief hires him to help monitor emails and phone conversations. Cartman is irritated to learn that he himself is not being monitored by the NSA and he tries unsuccessfully to convince the chief that Eric Cartman is really a threat ... Cartman is subsequently heartbroken to learn that nobody cares that the NSA is monitoring them.
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The point is this: the NSA doesn't care about 99% (or so) of what anyone says online. This includes everyone here, including myself. To think that Alexa is spying on us falls into serious conspiracy theory territory.
 
Colonel Sanders said:
The point is this: the NSA doesn't care about 99% (or so) of what anyone says online. This includes everyone here, including myself. To think that Alexa is spying on us falls into serious conspiracy theory territory.
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The NSA? Who cares about the NSA?

The spies are corporate. Alexa isn't spying for the government, she is spying for Amazon, and Amazon isn't constitutionally prohibited from nefarious acts, nor do we get to vote out the Amazon board if they make unpopular decisions.
 
crazyfingers said:
Summary? I don't watch videos.
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An AI summary of a summary :

Other democracies like the UK and South Korea are holding leaders accountable but the United States is failing to do so with Trump v. United States giving the president unprecedented freedom and the Jan 6 attempted coup going unpunished.

US Executive power is expanding dangerously.

International cooperation is being dismantled and replaced with centralized, personality-driven structures.

Public lands and institutions are being reshaped in ways that concentrate power and wealth.

However, popular resistance is growing — politically and culturally. The speaker has hope for the future.
 
That misses the mark as it isn't Congress that is failing to act, it is the GOP that is complicit in the power grab.

Read an interesting article about Gorsuch's whiney bitch in the Tariff decision. He complains about the liberals not taking their made up major powers doctrine as real (which is the source of the GOP/right-wing legal power grab).

But the big issue was the ideological split of the conservatives that dissented trying to carve out exceptions to the major powers doctrine to allow Trump to do whatever the fuck he wants. IE the far right three folks want to be complicit in any action by Trump, just like the GOP. Roberts, Barrett, and Gorsuch want adherence to their bullshit major powers doctrine, which is the conservative wet dream and future vision of the US, ie, rule of the corporate interests. Thomas/Kavanaugh (?)/Alito voted for a King while Roberts/Barrett/Gorsuch voted for their re-establish world order regarding corporate rule.
 
Colonel Sanders said:
Synopsis of South Park's "Let Go, Let Gov" episode:
Cartman goes to the NSA headquarters impersonating a job applicant ... The NSA chief hires him to help monitor emails and phone conversations. Cartman is irritated to learn that he himself is not being monitored by the NSA and he tries unsuccessfully to convince the chief that Eric Cartman is really a threat ... Cartman is subsequently heartbroken to learn that nobody cares that the NSA is monitoring them.
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The point is this: the NSA doesn't care about 99% (or so) of what anyone says online. This includes everyone here, including myself. To think that Alexa is spying on us falls into serious conspiracy theory territory.
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Read the latest demands from DoD Kegbreath issued to Anthropic.
 
The CHARLIE Act that New Hampshire just passed looks pretty fucking fascist. They have banned schools from even suggesting when race or class were factors in historical conflicts. This will prevent divisive teaching g and promote unity.
 
scombrid said:
The CHARLIE Act that New Hampshire just passed looks pretty fucking fascist. They have banned schools from even suggesting when race or class were factors in historical conflicts. This will prevent divisive teaching g and promote unity.
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I assume named after Charlie Kirk.
 
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