Thats a lot of revenue that grinds to a halt

it won't get too big. Just because we don't have the long storied history of china for putting down protests doesn't mean US police departments don't have the means

And a lot of angry hungry people in the streets

Police departments are going to shoot their own wives, mothers, sisters and brothers tho

Well most of them anyways

You do have the odd sociopath

But people here in the US put far to much stock in the "teh police is commin foh us" narrative

There isnt a single firearm I own that couldnt turn their plate carriers into tatters and powder anyways.

as things are now, sure enough, but those big shiney armored personel carriers and ordnance launchers aren't just going to gather dust when the wage slaves figure out they've been shafted

Most departments outside the mega cities dont have those

You are also forgetting national guard armories

Military members and brass with families that would be affected

for the ones that don't, there are fleets of armored vehicles sitting in nevada from all those lovely no-bid contracts the government is just waiting for an excuse to get rid of

There are a lot more variables that come into play in the states as far as civil unrest goes

Not even mentioning the most heavily armed populace on earth

not all the ar-15s ever produced can put up a fight against tanks and drones

Youre fucked in the head if you think that PD can keep a lid on 90+ million people with enough arms and munitions to fight a ground war for decades

You are implying the people with tanks and drones are all on the same side

And again in such close proximity its a numbers game

who the fuck's gonna come to the aid of the american underclass?! canada? UK? who the fuck is going to """intervene""" on our behalf?!

You keep insinuating the entire might of the US military is going to fall onto one side or another

Collectively

All of them

they swore an oath to combat enemies foreign and domestic.

With large scale civil unrest depending on scale the country would probably just fracture

rioters are all too easy to be labeled the domestic enemy

And when your family is starving who becomes the enemy?

Oaths dont mean shit when your family is onnthe line, oaths are words if you think the entire us military is going to turn its collective power against the us populace you are delusional

If you think no foreign power has a vested interest in dumping gasoline on that kind of fire you are just blind

if you're about to unironically call me a russian bot I think I'm going to need a drink

I can almost promise china or russia would dump stingers by the millions into the hands of domestic rebels

Both of those countries would laugh as we tore ourselves to pieces and divied up the remains

getting back on track, I find it unreliably optimistic to believe the incentive for those in power to reconfigure economic processes around automation is overall greater than the immediate rewards of draining the current system until its dry.

It would make more sense to pull a socialism and have the state sieze the means of producing and using the AI and just force the populace to live off whatever assistance they deign to offer

Would profit more people in power and AI would be a pretty good excuse for taking control

I can almost here warren and sanders now "no single company should have this much power, the state should control this so we can destribute its benefits fairly"

well full-AI wasn't exactly in my equasion

I mean is that what's in these pizza-matic whatsits?

A computer and the mechanism necessary ro perform its task

https://youtu.be/q-nzwAFAwOw
https://projects.sfchronicle.com/trackers/power-outages/
http://www.shastadefense.com/FAX-CalFireHamRadio20190923.pdf

The ar15 isn’t that good