Message from @aukkras
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At this time, it is all bound to implode and we're moving towards civil war...
I hope that in france something happens (ie Macron resigns, though he's hard left, so probably not)
Macron is center left.
Things are coming to a head though. It's time to organize if you haven't already.
That's the big weakness anyone not on the far left has right now.
The Far left is highly organized and coordinated, everyone else just sorta takes it. If anything happens, the far left will roll over basically everybody except those *really* isolated from it all (like Tim Cook).
*Suspension*
Get fucked. Repeal it
In other words, nothing really happens. It gets removed until they can slip it in somewhere else or propagandize some more (as happened in CA with the CA fuel tax)
Repealing is counter intuitive to the agenda of "Let it blow over and seep it back in"
The CA fuel tax I swear was a fucking travesty with how it appeared on the ballot
"DO YOU HATE ROADS AND WANT DESTROYED SOCIETY, VOTE YES TO RUIN ALL ROADS FOREVER"
>Reality
"Vote yes to do away with a tax that has done nothing but been squandered and wasted"
It was so fucking close too. 45% yes.
I hope that lawsuit about the phrasing of the prop goes through
Your new masters are coming. Just wait.
olds from year ago 😉
But very relevant given what Tim Cook said today.
Clearly, this guy has no qualms with Chinese-levels of censorship and control.
as long as they are doin the censoring
People are going to keep buying Apple's shit.
Tim Cook could say or do just about anything and people would still camp outside the Apple store for the next gizmo.
I find it funny that the people who buy Apple's shit, are the ones who claim to be against everything they do
Same with the people who will buy Nike for that one commercial.
These people see only what is in front of their faces, and don't see beyond it. They are easy to fool as they are already blind.
Been on a bit of a cyberpunk jag lately, and I've realized that we're far more dystopian today than they ever realized. Cyberpunk protagonists had ways of fighting back.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
The only alternatives to Apple for mobile devices are Google and Microsoft. We're at a point where Microsoft is looking like the least evil (largely due to their relative incompetence).
Of course, there's always forgoing mobile devices altogether.
But there's no guarantee that retreating into the world of the Luddite will protect you.
"Four Pinocchios"
You have to live under the power of a state, the state is under the influence of the tech giants, and the tech giants are hard lefties.
"Let’s put $21 trillion in context. The entire national debt is $21.8 trillion. According to the Congressional Budget Office, total defense spending from 1998 to 2015 was nearly $9 trillion. The CBO estimates $7 trillion in defense spending from 2019 to 2028.
In other words, completely defunding the military for the next decade would yield only one-fifth of $32 trillion. That’s a much better way of illustrating the cost of Medicare-for-All."
Even WaPo is shaking their heads at AOC
🤔
Heh, I thought antitrust laws were written specifically to prevent market power from being turned into political power.